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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 highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. ↗

— 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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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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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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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. ↗

— John Ruskin

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