It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.John Ruskin
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
John Ruskin
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John Ruskin
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
John Ruskin
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin
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Anything,
Architecture,
Beautiful,
Been,
Dead,
Ever,
Eye,
Given,
Great,
Hand,
Impossible,
Insisted,
Life,
Never,
Only,
Raise,
Restore,
Spirit,
Upon,
Which,
Whole,
Workman
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