John Ruskin
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.