John Ruskin Quotes
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.
Quotes to Explore
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The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.
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Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.
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A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.
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It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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For she had eyes and chose me.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.
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I was exhausted from fake partying. I was like, "I just danced for nine hours. Goodnight, ladies!"
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We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.
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All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!
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Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.
