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Quote by John Ruskin
Mans only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won

Mans only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. – John Ruskin

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. – John Ruskin

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin

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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another mans eyes. – William Shakespeare

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