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To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.

Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles God always gives us strength enough, and sense enough, for every thing that He wants us to do.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. - John Ruskin,

I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth; And sometimes, running o'er the plain, He tumbles on his nose: But quickly jumping up again, Like lightning on he goes!

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.

You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.

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

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

October's foliage yellows with his cold.

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 itself nothing.

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries, And to Versailles, although to go so far is A thing not quite consistent with your ease, And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is To my describing what the traveller sees. You who have ever been to Paris, know; And you who have not been to Paris--go!

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. - John Ruskin,