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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. ↗

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ↗

— John Ruskin

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. ↗

— John Ruskin

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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ↗

— John Ruskin

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