"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

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"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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Explore more quotes by John Ruskin

"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."

People

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

Strength

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Love

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

Time

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

Art

"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."

Time

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

Motivation

"I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful."

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"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

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"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."

Society