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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
Category: Beauty Author: John Ruskin
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
Category: Beauty Author: John Ruskin
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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
Category: Books and Reading Author: John Ruskin
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As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.
Category: Clothing Author: John Ruskin
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
Category: Flowers Author: John Ruskin
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There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
Category: Idleness Author: John Ruskin
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There is no wealth but life.
Category: Life Author: John Ruskin
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Category: Weather Author: John Ruskin
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