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Better Quotes by John Ruskin
- All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be…
- Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening…
- However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight…
- You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as…
- My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the…
- The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.
- There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast.…
- Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
- No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in…
- It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's…
- It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
- It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
- No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All…
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
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