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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."
"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."
"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."
"Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud."
Explore more quotes by John Ruskin
"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion."
"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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