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“The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.”

Art Use Used Purpose Fall Names Justice Greater Pride Guilt Profound Passing Passings Painter Sensuality Vain Proportion Rome Bells Provoking Spain Venice Decoration Leonardo Raphael Milan

Author:John Ruskin

“Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.”

Ifs Men Justice Negative Vanity Vain Magnanimity Never Expect

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.”

Ifs Men Way Order Fall Realizing Justice Effort Responsibility Conditions Crime Murder Unity Vain Desperate Justify Rebel Thrones Dominion

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.”

Years Justice Judgment Gains Experience Vain

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.”

People School Remember Justice Streets Died Vain Soil Native

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.”

Humanity Justice Example Vain Republic Castes Presidents Day

Book:Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered, at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of America, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866

Source: Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered, at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of America, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866

“My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!”

Ifs Should Has Beens Enough Government Causes Justice Imagine Revolution Dear Atheist Convinced Vain Imagine That Providence Superiority Ruined Deities Dear Friend

Author:Benjamin Franklin