English - Writer | February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900
There is no wealth but life.
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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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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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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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for 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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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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