Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

John Ruskin in The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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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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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

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It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

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