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Letter "J" » John Ruskin Quotes
«Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts / the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.»
«We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!»
«People cannot live by lending money to one another.»
«An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.»
«It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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breaking point, crumbs, exhausts, fragments, nail, segment, segments
«Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are»
«Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.»
«It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity»
«Hundreds can talk to one who can think; thousands can think to one who can see»
«He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.»
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