It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.John Ruskin
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself my disgust at her barbarity clumsiness darkness bitter mockery of herself is the most desolating.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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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
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