Quote by John Ruskin
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore a

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. – John Ruskin

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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. – John Ruskin

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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – John Ruskin

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Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. – Daniel Burnham

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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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