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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.


John Ruskin

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JOHN RUSKIN John 1:5

"Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it
ANONYMOUS Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.
JOHN RUSKIN Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. - John Ruskin,
JOHN RUSKIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes bur...
JAMES JOYCE No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and i...
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Lucas had a great summer of training. John is an anachronism. He is the reason why I come to work.
AL CANTELLO I... the oracle, see but cannot put into action without your aid. The future is created by all thing...
JOSE ABRAHAM TACTUK NUñEZ She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of t...
ANNA GODBERSEN There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
CARL G JUNG There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
CARL JUNG There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion
CARL GUSTAV JUNG While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC It has been a great team effort to come back and win without some of our great wrestlers. Some have ...
JOSHUA KATCHER As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.
PALOMA FAITH We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave pu...
KAMI GARCIA To come out of the darkness and into the light to only look back to see it follow
JODEL AREVALO Being with her always felt like gazing the stars and into the infinity, reading a book which never e...
AKSHAY VASU When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into...
AL GORE When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced
JOHN M SHEEHAN But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all he...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER When I look up at the stars I see a bright light you see like the stars they cannot come out without...
ANIKA SHARMA It will not take a modern Victorian specialist long to admit that liberal cultural heroes like John ...
EDWARD SAID I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great l...
THALIA Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
VOLTAIRE Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.
MARGARET STOHL It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.
-Macon Rav...
MARGARET STOHL We may have hit bottom here, to some extent, ... We're facing two quarters -- the fourth of 2001 and...
LARA RHAME We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.
PAUL BOESE Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our man...
MEGHAN DON The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern t...
ELLEN G. WHITE In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and ...
THOMAS WOLFE That was beautiful, John,
NANCY WALKER The first day John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper were scheduled to come on set, I woke up and became a...
CHARLES KOPPELMAN This spring has been great for Kmart and other retailers. Hopefully, the consumer will continue to c...
ROBERT BURTON True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towa...
C.S. LEWIS The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its con...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD John is a great athlete who has shown great improvement over the past season. He's got a great break...
ROBBIE WINE To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit To publish it to all the na...
ALEXANDER POPE Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the
other shore; into eternal darkness;...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Now this state [that] gave us John Adams and John Kennedy has now given us John Kerry , a good man, ...
BILL CLINTON Theft is theft. When you log onto an illegal service and download music for free without compensatio...
JENNI ENGEBRETSEN True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.
JOHN GREEN I is the hardest word to define.
JOHN GREEN Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to...
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates li...
BORIS PASTERNAK Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of c...
MARK HADDON All of our energy, all of our preparation is going into this game. We hope that our kids will get to...
DOUG SNYDER Shrinking in a corner,
pressed into the wall;
do they know I'm present,
am I here at ...
LANG LEAV To be a great producer, music has to be a big part of your soul. And when it comes to making music, ...
BRIAN WILSON I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a wor...
MARY BALOGH One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future h...
MICHAEL CIBENKO All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
WILLIAM HURT When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
ENRIQUE JARDIEL PONCELA when you fall into darkness do not spend all your energy and light rather than to remain in darkness...
KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist It is good to follow the path of duty, though in the midst...
DAVID BRAINERD By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives...
KAREN ABBOTT The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.
WILHELM WUNDT Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citize...
KEVIN RUDD Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a gold...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beauti...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and i...
MICHAEL CAINE You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them ...
SETH ADAM SMITH [Courtney] has been developing her bat all season and has really come into her own.
LINDSAY SAWYER No nation becomes great without first eradicating laziness from the lives of its citizens. A nation ...
CLEMENT OGEDEGBE They're great songwriters in the tradition of the Beatles and Pink Floyd. Their songs are beautiful ...
SERJ TANKIAN Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all - gazing into the lamp of emotional attachm...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB When we come near the light, all the darkness around us, shall disappears.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
SARA HUMPHREYS Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.
DANTE ALIGHIERI this has been an elaborate exercise in navel gazing.
DANA MILBANK I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, mor...
JASON MRAZ Converts have it soft," said Mary. "They come to it late, without ever having had the Devil under th...
MAVIS GALLANT All darkness has to take in light
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...
CARL JUNG Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Of the 67 attorneys general we have had, only a handful have come close to the qualifications that J...
ORRIN HATCH Coach (John Olive) just emphasized that we had to come out and work harder than the other team. That...
JAMES RAHON No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him disti...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Anybody can come and enjoy music and see all the beautiful ladies.
LINDA DECKER From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selecte...
JIMMY PAGE How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
STEFAN ZWEIG Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the life of the W...
HELEN KELLER

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JOHN RUSKIN Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall...
JOHN RUSKIN A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.
JOHN RUSKIN We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty...
JOHN RUSKIN The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain wi...
JOHN RUSKIN The best thing in life aren't things.
JOHN RUSKIN A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
JOHN RUSKIN Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of ...
JOHN RUSKIN Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
JOHN RUSKIN Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so...
JOHN RUSKIN In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...
JOHN RUSKIN There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little ...
JOHN RUSKIN You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, w...
JOHN RUSKIN When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c...
JOHN RUSKIN