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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

~John Ruskin

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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 8th, 1819

Died: January 20th, 1900

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