Quote by John Ruskin
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their g

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. – John Ruskin

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin

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When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest, and so forth, I switch off quite early. – Christopher Hitchens

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No great thing is created suddenly. – Epictetus

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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. – Swami Vivekananda

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. – Voltaire

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