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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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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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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. – John Ruskin

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. – John Ruskin

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

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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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It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. – George Bernard Shaw

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