"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

Ruskin, John on fishing
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"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."

Ruskin, John on imagination
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"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."

Ruskin, John on imagination   

"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."

Ruskin, John on individuality
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"An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men."

Ruskin, John on inheritance   

"The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle."

Ruskin, John on language   

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"Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith."

Ruskin, John on faith
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"One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live."

Ruskin, John on death
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"The best thing in life aren't things."

Ruskin, John on value
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"To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions."

Ruskin, John on books - reading   

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"A book worth reading is worth buying."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

Ruskin, John on beauty
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"No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart."

Ruskin, John on appearance   

"There is no wealth but life."

Ruskin, John on life   

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Camus, Albert on respectability
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"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Camus, Albert on discontent
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Bryan, William Jennings on destiny
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