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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

~John Ruskin

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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

~John Ruskin

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 8th, 1819

Died: January 20th, 1900

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