I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
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The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.
John Ruskin
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.
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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