The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
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What is poetry The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.John Ruskin
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
It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
John Ruskin
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