No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

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

  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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