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John Ruskin Quotes
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadow ceases to be enjoyed as light.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
God alone can finish.
Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death.
The first test of a truly great man is his humility.
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Wise Quote
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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