“He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth — they, and they only.”

—  John Ruskin

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 563.

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English writer and art critic 1819–1900

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