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Letter "J" » John Ruskin Quotes
«To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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all-time, appeal, book of knowledge, conception, councils, council of, Judges, LED, of all time, purer, rightly, sentence, solitary, unstable, wider
«Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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Cheerfulness
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cheerfulness, health food, improperly, unwholesome
«Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.»
«Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.»
«No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.»
«The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.»
«Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness»
«You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil»
«The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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Soul
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all in, All in one, human soul, prophecy
«No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish»
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