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Quote by John Ruskin
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send hi

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin

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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. – John Ruskin

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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. – 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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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. – David Hume

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. – Giacomo Casanova

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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

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Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. – Benjamin Franklin

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If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. Id have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldnt enjoy spending it. – Martina Navratilova

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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. – E. O. Wilson

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