John Ruskin Quotes
It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.
John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
Ed Bradley
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
Sally Field
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
Damien Chazelle
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I was born with a stain. A mark. Like the mark of Cain. But is the mark of my father, my family. The mark of Borgia. I have tried to be other than I am. And I have failed. And If I have failed you in the process, I am truly sorry.
Cesare Borgia
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Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
Camille Claudel
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The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it.
John Stuart Mill
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in the world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.
Uell Stanley Andersen
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It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.
John Ruskin
