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Quote by John Ruskin
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. – 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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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. – John Ruskin

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The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. – Thomas Hardy

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The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. – Alfred Kreymborg

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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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The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

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