Quote by John Ruskin
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their re

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. – 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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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. – John Ruskin

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Of all Gods gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. – 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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Generally a chefs book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work. – Sally Schneider

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. – Horace

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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. – Giorgio Vasari

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. – Arthur Bloch

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. – Bertrand Russell

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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. – Charles Baudelaire

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