"To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to……" — John Ruskin
"To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality."
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404 Quotes by John Ruskin
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was…
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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When we build, let us think that we build forever.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by…
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable…
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Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
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This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We…
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are…
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Time is the thief you cannot banish.
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If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.
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Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the…
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that…
— Henry Ford
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Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.
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