Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling.
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.John Ruskin
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
John Ruskin
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
John Ruskin
What does cooking mean It means the knowledge of Media and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits. and balms and spices.... I means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that your are to see imperatively, that everyone has something nice to eat.
John Ruskin
Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
John Ruskin
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