"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
-John Ruskin
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"You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.“
-John Ruskin
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"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
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"Whether for life or death, do your own work well."
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"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."
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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
-John Woolman
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