John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice (1851)

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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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This rock [marble], then, is prepared by Nature for the sculptor and architect, just as paper is prepared by the manufacturer for the artist, with as great - nay, with greater - care, and more perfect adaptation of the material to the requirements.

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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

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It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

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He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

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You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.

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Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and Divine power.

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

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