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November 27, 2009 by kevinstilley

John Ruskin – select quotes

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words; a lie may be told in silence, by equivocation, by the accent on a syllable, by a glance of the eye attaching a peculiar significance to a sentence; but all of these kinds of lies are worse and baser by many degrees than a lie plainly worded.
~ John Ruskin, in Modern Painters

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
~ in Sesame and Lilies

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

The Bible is the one book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable–nay, letter by letter… you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly “illiterate,” uneducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy– you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

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