Quote by John Ruskin
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. – John Ruskin

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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. – John Ruskin

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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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Age is how we determine how valuable you are. – Jane Elliot

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You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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