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Quote by John Ruskin
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liber

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. – 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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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – John Ruskin

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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. – John Ruskin

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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it. – Sir John Lubbock

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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint. – Mahatma Gandhi

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