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Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

John Ruskin
Time, Thinking, Feelings
"Selected writings: Edited and introduced by Peter Quennell".

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

John Ruskin
Fake People, Judging, Feelings
John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.117, Courier Corporation

To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.

John Ruskin
People, Feelings, Mind
"Modern Painters". Book by John Ruskin. Volume III, part IV, chapter XVI, 1856.

It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.

John Ruskin
Eye, Perfect, Feelings
John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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