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" I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one... "
Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 561
by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pages
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 15

American fiction - 1907 - 554 pages
...impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,...is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one." What, then, finally is the type of college woman that we should seek to send forth from our Southern...
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Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - Child development - 1892 - 264 pages
...them to see. Did you ever think how many people there are who " having eyes, see not"? Ruskin says, " Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,...one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one." A gentleman who is trying to write the biography of a great man complained to...
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The Academy, Volume 3

Education - 1889 - 686 pages
...see, to see critically and intelligently. Emerson has well said: ''I am impressed with the fact that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and to tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands...
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The Academy: A Journal of Secondary Education, Issued Monthly ..., Volume 3

Education - 1888 - 746 pages
...see, to see critically and intelligently. Emerson has well said: "I am impressed with the fact that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and to tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands...
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The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary on the Old Testament ...

Bible - 1892 - 672 pages
...Hooker. A Seer. — The more I think of it, the more I find tliis conclusion impressed npon me — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to tet something, and tell what it taw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,...
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Book News, Volume 11

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1893 - 628 pages
...having eyes, see not?" No one has showed better how general blindness exists than Ruskin, who says : " Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,...one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one." For a child to acquire a quick perception has for resultant the well-defined...
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The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion

Wales - 1893 - 290 pages
...of modern poets has not helped them. " Thousands can think," Mr. Ruskin epigrammatically tells us, " for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one." It may be, indeed, that our modern Poetry of Nature is unduly " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of...
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The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Volume 3

Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - Wales - 1893 - 662 pages
...of modern poets has not helped them. " Thousands can think," Mr. Ruskin epigrammatically tells us, " for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one." It may be, indeed, that our modern Poetry of Nature is unduly " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of...
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Proceedings, Abstracts of Lectures and a Brief Report of the Discussions of ...

National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1893 - 862 pages
...it," says Raskin, " the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that one of the greatest things a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and to tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk to one who thinks, but thousands can...
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Modern painters

John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 476 pages
...done by these two men, the more I think of it I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this...is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. Therefore, finding the world of Literature more or less divided into Thinkers and Seers, I believe...
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