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Quote by John Ruskin
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but esp

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. – 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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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. – 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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Every time I see something terrible, its like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. – Ralph Nader

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I think its pretty crazy to say youve been typecast at the age of 20 before youve even really started getting going. – Tom Felton

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. – J. K. Rowling

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We tend to think of age only in time, but I dont think it has much to do with time at all theres a whole load of other things. Ive met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young. – Roger Daltrey

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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. – Richard M. Nixon

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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My family moved – first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool. – Greg Kinnear

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So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes. – Robert Kiyosaki

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