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Quote by John Ruskin
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the s

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. – John Ruskin

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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. – John Ruskin

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. – John Ruskin

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The clouds, — the only birds that never sleep. – Victor Hugo

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I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. – Oscar Wilde

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Or those war-clouds that gather on the horizon, dragon-crested, tongued with fire;—how is their barbed strength bridled? what bits are these they are champing with their vaporous lips… – John Ruskin, “The Cloud-Balancings”

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The night sky is a miracle of infinitude. – Terri Guillemets, “Temere Sætninger: ix,” 2006

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