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John Ruskin – English Art Critic

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Did you know?

John Ruskin was the most influential art critic of his time.

He used to be wedded to Effie, who later became the wife of John Everett Millais, a brilliant painter during the renaissance period.

Ruskin was married to Effie for six long years without consummating the marriage.

There were wicked murmurs that during their wedding night, Ruskin was traumatised by the sight of Effie’s pubic hair. The shock caused him impotency. Ruskin did not expect the rather hirsute comeliness of his wife compared to the hairless sculptures he was used to seeing.

LOL 🙂

John Ruskin Quotes

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.
—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.
– John Ruskin

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

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“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
― John Ruskin
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It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated, but by his equal or superior.
—Ruskin.
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.
– John Rushkin
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It does a bullet no good to go fast;
and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow;
for his glory is not at all in the going, but in being
-John Ruskin
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
– John Ruskin
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To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray -these are the things that make men happy.

– John Ruskin

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There is no wealth but life.
– John Ruskin
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This is the true nature of home—it is the place of Peace; the shelter not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. In so far as it is not this, it is not home; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it * * * it ceases to be home; it is then only a part of that outer world which you have roofed over and lighted fire in.
—John Ruskin.
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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.
—John Ruskin
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Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC)

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Roman Poet

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC)

 

Horace @ Wikipedia

Biodata

  • Full Name: Quintus Horatius Flaccus
  • Better known as Horace
  • DoB: 8 December 65 BC
  • PoB: Venusia, Italy
  • Died: 27 November 8  BC
  • Legacy: Lyric poems

 

 

 

 

 

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
—Horace.
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A hungry stomach seldom scorn plain food.

– Horace

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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment.

– Horace

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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
– Horace

 

George Orwell

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George Orwell was the pen name of the novelist, political writer and journalist Eric Arthur Blair.


Orwell was a British journalist and author, who wrote two of the most famous novels of the 20th century ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.

Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer. In 1928, he moved to Paris where lack of success as a writer forced him into a series of menial jobs. He described his experiences in his first book, ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’, published in 1933. He took the name George Orwell, shortly before its publication. This was followed by his first novel, ‘Burmese Days’, in 1934.

An anarchist in the late 1920s, by the 1930s he had begun to consider himself a socialist. In 1936, he was commissioned to write an account of poverty among unemployed miners in northern England, which resulted in ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ (1937). Late in 1936, Orwell travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco’s Nationalists. He was forced to flee in fear of his life from Soviet-backed communists who were suppressing revolutionary socialist dissenters. The experience turned him into a lifelong anti-Stalinist.

Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. By now he was a prolific journalist, writing articles, reviews and books.

In 1945, Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ was published. A political fable set in a farmyard but based on Stalin’s betrayal of the Russian Revolution, it made Orwell’s name and ensured he was financially comfortable for the first time in his life. ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ was published four years later. Set in an imaginary totalitarian future, the book made a deep impression, with its title and many phrases – such as ‘Big Brother is watching you’, ‘newspeak’ and ‘doublethink’ – entering popular use. By now Orwell’s health was deteriorating and he died of tuberculosis on 21 January 1950.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket
– George Orwell

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Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor.  But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.
– George Orwell

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Good prose is like a window pane.

– George Orwell

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Myths which are believed in, tend to be true.
– George Orwell
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
– George Orwell

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The more you are in the right, the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.
– George Orwell
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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
– George Orwell

Marcel Proust – GG’s French Philosopher

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Marcel Proust – GG’s French Philosopher

1871-1922
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
– Marcel Proust

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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
– Marcel Proust
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
~Marcel Proust
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It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms on would not part.
– Marcel Proust
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~Marcel Proust

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
– Marcel Proust

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust

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There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind.
– Marcel Proust

 

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Margaret Thatcher – The Iron Lady

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You either hate her or love her. I feel the latter myself. I think this woman was a great Briton, a true credit to her country. A woman like her can only be emulated. She is an inspiration to women. She has brain, she has guts and balls.

To MAGGIE, you are one heck of a woman.

Long you may live!

Margaret Thatcher – The Iron Lady

Did you know?

Lady Thatcher was known to work for 18 hours a day and would only require 4 hours sleep.


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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
– Maggie
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Defeat – I do not recognise the meaning of the word!
– Maggie
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Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do.
– Maggie
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
– Maggie
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If you want anything said, ask a man.  If you want something done, ask a woman.

– Maggie

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
– Maggie
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I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
– Maggie

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I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
– Maggie

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I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
– Maggie

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Of ourse it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
– Maggie
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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
– Maggie
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Platitude? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
– Maggie
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
– Maggie

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“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. and no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first.”
– Margaret Thatcher
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
– Maggie
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The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
– Maggie
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
– Margaret Thatcher

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mAGGIE