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Nothing Quotes by John Ruskin
- 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…
- There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the…
- To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
- Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by…
- The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.
- Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
- Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
- It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
- To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught…
- I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
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