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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. – John Ruskin

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin

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Society
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin

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Weather
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The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this — that we manufacture everything there except men. – John Ruskin

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Industry
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Other Quotes from
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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. – Kenneth Koch

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Poetry

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo

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Poetry

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Poetry

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Poetry

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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius

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power

We cant destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. – Robin Morgan

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Marriage

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way. – C.S. Lewis

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Surrender

Our attitude toward life determines lifes attitude towards us. – John N. Mitchell

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