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.

John Ruskin
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  2. All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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

  4. 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

  5. For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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