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“ When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet. ”

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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

~ John Ruskin

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

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To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

~ John Ruskin