I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.John Ruskin
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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However good you may be you have faults however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.
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The highest reward for a mans toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
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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.
John Ruskin
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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