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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ↗

— John Ruskin

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ↗

— John Ruskin

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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. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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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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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. ↗

— John Ruskin

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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ↗

— John Ruskin

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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