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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

#ambitious #australia #delusion #delusional #desire

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? ↗

— John Ruskin

#ask #believe #carver #done #enjoyment

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

#architecture #beautiful #been #dead #ever

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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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deformity #ever #heart #kind #manners

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

— John Ruskin

#force #intellect #operation #passion #skill

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#distinguishing #price #sign #slavery

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buildings #doing #duty #first #goodness

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cursing #hand #help #inflict #invoking