John Ruskin Quotes
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.
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It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.
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I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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God sent us here to make mistakes.
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Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.
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For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.
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I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are our anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead. And all our promises, like all our hopes, move us through life with the power of an ocean liner pushing through the sea.
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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.
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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
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True love doesn't consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts.
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I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?
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When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't it, folks? You couldn't find a drink in the roaring 20's, could ya? See that's the problem with the banning thing! I say why stop there, let's not ban guns, I know, let's ban crime!
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I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
