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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Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. – John Ruskin

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Mans only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. – John Ruskin

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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. – John Ruskin

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

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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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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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