HOW TO BUILD 

Catastrophe will come; or worse than catastrophe, slow mouldering

and withering into Hades. But if you can fix some conception of a 

true human state of life to be striven for - life, good, for all men, 

as for yourselves; if you can determine some honest and simple order 

of existence; following those trodden ways of wisdom, which are 

pleasantness, and seeking her quiet and withdrawn paths, which are 

peace; - then, and so sanctifying wealth into 'common-wealth', all 

your art, your literature, your daily labours, your domestic 

affection, and citizen's duty, will join and increase into one 

magnificent harmony. You will know then how to build, well enough; 

you will build with stone well, but with flesh better; temples not 

made with hands, but riveted of hearts; and that kind of marble, 

crimson-veiled, is indeed eternal. 

JOHN RUSKIN 

...............................................
Be the change
you want to see in the world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi



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