Quote by John Ruskin
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and

There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor. – John Ruskin

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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. – John Ruskin

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The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this — that we manufacture everything there except men. – John Ruskin

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Industry
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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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The hardest work is to go idle. – Yiddish Proverb

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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock

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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. – Proverb

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still. – George Chapman

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Surround yourself with positive people. – Melanie Fiona

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Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy. – John Northbrooke

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I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline. – Arthur Godfrey

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