Quote by John Ruskin
A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it wi

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort. – John Ruskin

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. – John Ruskin

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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. – John Ruskin

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Education
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. – John Ruskin

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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of ones designs to ones means. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform. – Percy Wynham Lewis

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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. – Buddha

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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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