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

— John Ruskin

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. ↗

— 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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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
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— Jarod Kintz

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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— 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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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. ↗

— John Ruskin

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