In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
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Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.John Ruskin
It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy and the two cannot be separated with impunity
John Ruskin
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears
John Ruskin
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
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