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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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.John Ruskin
Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back
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The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things not merely industrious, but to love industry not merely learned, but to love knowledge not merely pure, but to love purity not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
John Ruskin
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set to draw hard breath over the plough or spade to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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