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Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust. -- John Ruskin
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My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature. -- John Ruskin
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Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. -- John Ruskin
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Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself. -- John Ruskin
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Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. -- John Ruskin
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. -- John Ruskin
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Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it. -- John Ruskin
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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. -- John Ruskin
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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. -- John Ruskin
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. -- John Ruskin
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God alone can finish. -- John Ruskin
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God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do. -- John Ruskin
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A book worth reading is worth owning. -- John Ruskin
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In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble. -- John Ruskin
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To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty -- John Ruskin
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Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;
but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day. -- John Ruskin
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The best work never was and never will be done for money. -- John Ruskin
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It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God. -- John Ruskin
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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. -- John Ruskin
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All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. -- John Ruskin
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Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained. -- John Ruskin
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The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith. -- John Ruskin
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I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth. -- John Ruskin
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. -- John Ruskin
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Cookery means ... English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. -- John Ruskin
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PAINT the leaves as they grow! If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world,' John Ruskin -- John Ruskin
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. -- John Ruskin
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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. -- John Ruskin
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. -- John Ruskin
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Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. -- John Ruskin
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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty. -- John Ruskin
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. -- John Ruskin
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless. -- John Ruskin
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God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it
a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place. -- John Ruskin
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Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. -- John Ruskin
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Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking- had he the gold? or the gold him? -- John Ruskin
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I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we find them, and the way we lose them. -- John Ruskin
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections. -- John Ruskin
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things. -- John Ruskin
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind. -- John Ruskin
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The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes ... when he has nothing better to do. -- John Ruskin
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God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work. -- John Ruskin
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There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. -- John Ruskin
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I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage. -- John Ruskin
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Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses. -- John Ruskin
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Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy. -- John Ruskin
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Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. -- John Ruskin
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Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors. -- John Ruskin
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. -- John Ruskin
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If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law. -- John Ruskin
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All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. -- John Ruskin
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There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it. -- John Ruskin
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Morality does not depend on religion. -- John Ruskin
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. -- John Ruskin
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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed. -- John Ruskin
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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
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No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. -- John Ruskin
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To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. -- John Ruskin
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It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature. -- John Ruskin
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The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past. -- John Ruskin
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. -- John Ruskin
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Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures -- John Ruskin
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. -- John Ruskin
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You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required
and content that He should indeed require no more of you
than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him. -- John Ruskin
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Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection. -- John Ruskin
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Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. -- John Ruskin
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In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light. -- John Ruskin
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All great art is praise. -- John Ruskin
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. -- John Ruskin
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All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. -- John Ruskin
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them. -- John Ruskin
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Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him. -- John Ruskin
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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted. -- John Ruskin
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Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity. -- John Ruskin
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Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think. -- John Ruskin
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Education ... is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning, ... by praise, but above all
by example. -- John Ruskin
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. -- John Ruskin
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others. -- John Ruskin
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At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them. -- John Ruskin
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So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches. -- John Ruskin
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. -- John Ruskin
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does. -- John Ruskin
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. -- John Ruskin
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Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845) -- John Ruskin
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A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself. -- John Ruskin
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If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all. -- John Ruskin
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To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few. -- John Ruskin
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. -- John Ruskin
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious. -- John Ruskin
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That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin -- John Ruskin
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Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world. -- John Ruskin
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Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie. -- John Ruskin
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What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. -- John Ruskin
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True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy. -- John Ruskin
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Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury. -- John Ruskin
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I know well that happiness is in little things. -- John Ruskin
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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
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We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace. -- John Ruskin
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It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole. -- John Ruskin
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Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest. -- John Ruskin
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. -- John Ruskin
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I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out. -- John Ruskin
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He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold. -- John Ruskin
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A splendour of miscellaneous spirits. -- John Ruskin
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The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth. -- John Ruskin
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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known. -- John Ruskin
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Beautiful art can only be produced by people who have beautiful things about them. -- John Ruskin
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It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building. -- John Ruskin
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along. -- John Ruskin
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In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. -- John Ruskin
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Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel. -- John Ruskin
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The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us. -- John Ruskin
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Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force. -- John Ruskin
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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. -- John Ruskin
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The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it. -- John Ruskin
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting. -- John Ruskin
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I should recommend ... keeping ... a small memorandum-book in the breast-pocket, with its well-cut sheathed pencil, ready for notes on passing opportunities, but never being without this. -- John Ruskin
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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. -- John Ruskin
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. -- John Ruskin
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The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so. -- John Ruskin
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Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. -- John Ruskin
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If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses -- John Ruskin
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Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world. -- John Ruskin
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Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure. -- John Ruskin
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The common highwayman's demand of "your money OR your life," into that of "your money AND your life. -- John Ruskin
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. -- John Ruskin
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Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life. -- John Ruskin
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A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. -- John Ruskin
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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart. -- John Ruskin
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Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. -- John Ruskin
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. -- John Ruskin
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When love and skill work together, expect a materpiece. -- John Ruskin
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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers. -- John Ruskin
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It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls. -- John Ruskin
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The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly. -- John Ruskin
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Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them - in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures. -- John Ruskin
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Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house. -- John Ruskin
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Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places. -- John Ruskin
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. -- John Ruskin
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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. -- John Ruskin
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A man never stood so tall as when he stooped to help a child. -- John Ruskin
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating. -- John Ruskin
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In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. -- John Ruskin
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. -- John Ruskin
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The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this
that we manufacture everything there except men. -- John Ruskin
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. -- John Ruskin
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. -- John Ruskin
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit. -- John Ruskin
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. -- John Ruskin
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Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth. -- John Ruskin
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. -- John Ruskin
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. -- John Ruskin
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It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior. -- John Ruskin
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Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained. -- John Ruskin
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. -- John Ruskin
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The art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'. -- John Ruskin
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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. -- John Ruskin
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Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all. -- John Ruskin
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. -- John Ruskin
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What is really desired, under the name of riches, is, essentially, power over men; in its simplest sense, the power of obtaining for own own advantage the labour of servant, tradesman, and artist; in wider sense, authority of directing large masses of the nation to various ends. -- John Ruskin
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The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing ... should be taught to every child just as writing is. -- John Ruskin
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There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too. -- John Ruskin
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It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving. -- John Ruskin
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way. -- John Ruskin
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Occult Theft,
Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,
corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists -- John Ruskin
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Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing. -- John Ruskin
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. -- John Ruskin
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Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail,
strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance. -- John Ruskin
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Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. -- John Ruskin
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No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others. -- John Ruskin
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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. -- John Ruskin
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Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed. -- John Ruskin
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The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction. -- John Ruskin
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. -- John Ruskin
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No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. -- John Ruskin
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When God shuts a door, He opens a window. -- John Ruskin
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Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they. -- John Ruskin
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One can't be angry when one looks at a Penguin -- John Ruskin
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. -- John Ruskin
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Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought. -- John Ruskin
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Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. -- John Ruskin
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -- John Ruskin
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Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. -- John Ruskin
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The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight. -- John Ruskin
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If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good. -- John Ruskin
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You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty. -- John Ruskin
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet. -- John Ruskin
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A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply fineness of nature. -- John Ruskin
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Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is. -- John Ruskin
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No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it. -- John Ruskin
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling. -- John Ruskin
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. -- John Ruskin
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Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever. -- John Ruskin
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All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time. -- John Ruskin
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. -- John Ruskin
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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. -- John Ruskin
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There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul. -- John Ruskin
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The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you. -- John Ruskin
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A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear. -- John Ruskin
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I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: ... with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history. -- John Ruskin
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There is no music in a "rest" that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody. -- John Ruskin
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The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares. -- John Ruskin
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them. -- John Ruskin
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. -- John Ruskin
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. -- John Ruskin
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No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice. -- John Ruskin
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The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form. -- John Ruskin
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If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it. -- John Ruskin
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Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice. -- John Ruskin
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. -- John Ruskin
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The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. -- John Ruskin
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There are no laws by which we can write Iliads. -- John Ruskin
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As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. -- John Ruskin
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. -- John Ruskin
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Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull. -- John Ruskin
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The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty. -- John Ruskin
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What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures. -- John Ruskin
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. -- John Ruskin
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well. -- John Ruskin
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Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food. -- John Ruskin
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In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet. -- John Ruskin
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The last act crowns the play. -- John Ruskin
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As the art of life is learned, it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary; a wild flower by the wayside, tended corn, wild birds and creatures of the forest, as well as the tended cattle; because man doth not live by bread only. -- John Ruskin
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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. -- John Ruskin
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do. -- John Ruskin
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Order and system are nobler things than power. -- John Ruskin
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The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones. -- John Ruskin
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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. -- John Ruskin
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. -- John Ruskin
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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life. -- John Ruskin
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. -- John Ruskin
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. -- John Ruskin
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All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back. -- John Ruskin
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. -- John Ruskin
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. -- John Ruskin
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The best thing in life aren't things. -- John Ruskin
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A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853) -- John Ruskin
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Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man. -- John Ruskin
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There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation. -- John Ruskin
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Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces. -- John Ruskin
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The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive. -- John Ruskin
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. -- John Ruskin
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Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men. -- John Ruskin
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength. -- John Ruskin
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Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it. -- John Ruskin
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Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age. -- John Ruskin
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You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better. -- John Ruskin
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. -- John Ruskin
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There are many religions, but there is only one morality. -- John Ruskin
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One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary. -- John Ruskin
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. -- John Ruskin
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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. -- John Ruskin
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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. -- John Ruskin
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. -- John Ruskin
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I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me. -- John Ruskin
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A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools. -- John Ruskin
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Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave. -- John Ruskin
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. -- John Ruskin
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. -- John Ruskin
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Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God. -- John Ruskin
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. -- John Ruskin
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? -- John Ruskin
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If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours. -- John Ruskin
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I have a dog of Blenheim birth,
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running o'er the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again,
Like lightning on he goes! -- John Ruskin
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On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong. -- John Ruskin
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It was stated, ... that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:
the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation. -- John Ruskin
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The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. -- John Ruskin
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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. -- John Ruskin
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When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. -- John Ruskin
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You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight. -- John Ruskin
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The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. -- John Ruskin
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. -- John Ruskin
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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. -- John Ruskin
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See! This our fathers did for us. -- John Ruskin
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The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one. -- John Ruskin
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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design. -- John Ruskin
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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work. -- John Ruskin
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. -- John Ruskin
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I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child. -- John Ruskin
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The wisest men are wise to the full in death. -- John Ruskin
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. -- John Ruskin
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. -- John Ruskin
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There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands. -- John Ruskin
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. -- John Ruskin
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing. -- John Ruskin
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This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. -- John Ruskin
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It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country. -- John Ruskin
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future. -- John Ruskin
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them. -- John Ruskin
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. -- John Ruskin
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Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling. -- John Ruskin
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. -- John Ruskin
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. -- John Ruskin
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances. -- John Ruskin
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Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime. -- John Ruskin
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. -- John Ruskin
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Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art. -- John Ruskin
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Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature. -- John Ruskin
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Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged." -- John Ruskin
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. -- John Ruskin
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. -- John Ruskin
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There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done. -- John Ruskin
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In the purest landscape, the human subject is the immortality of the soul by the faithfulness of love. -- John Ruskin
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. -- John Ruskin
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Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena. -- John Ruskin
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Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. -- John Ruskin
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You can only possess beauty through understanding it. -- John Ruskin
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. -- John Ruskin
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The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities. -- John Ruskin
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Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. -- John Ruskin
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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. -- John Ruskin
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The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness. -- John Ruskin
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No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy. -- John Ruskin
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. -- John Ruskin
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Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself. -- John Ruskin
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Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable. -- John Ruskin
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. -- John Ruskin
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You may sell your work, but not your soul. -- John Ruskin
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The mass of society is made up of morbid thinkers, and miserable workers. Now it is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity. -- John Ruskin
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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. -- John Ruskin
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However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them. -- John Ruskin
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The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. -- John Ruskin
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As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. -- John Ruskin
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Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay? -- John Ruskin
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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 who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. -- John Ruskin
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The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea. -- John Ruskin
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Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one. -- John Ruskin
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -- John Ruskin
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things. -- John Ruskin
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Architecture is the work of nations -- John Ruskin
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It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. -- John Ruskin
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Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. -- John Ruskin
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You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame. -- John Ruskin
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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use. -- John Ruskin
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The majesty of nature depends upon the force of the human spirit. -- John Ruskin
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There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder. -- John Ruskin
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The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. -- John Ruskin
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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression. -- John Ruskin
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And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay? -- John Ruskin
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Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done. -- John Ruskin
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No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself. -- John Ruskin
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. -- John Ruskin
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. -- John Ruskin
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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture ... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields. -- John Ruskin
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No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin
victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. -- John Ruskin
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. -- John Ruskin
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. -- John Ruskin
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Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter. -- John Ruskin
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. -- John Ruskin
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As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite
variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite
energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. -- John Ruskin
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There is no wealth but life. -- John Ruskin
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. -- John Ruskin
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. -- John Ruskin
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. -- John Ruskin
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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. -- John Ruskin
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul. -- John Ruskin
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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby. -- John Ruskin
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Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house. -- John Ruskin
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Always stand by form against force. -- John Ruskin
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. -- John Ruskin
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No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time. -- John Ruskin
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The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy ... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. -- John Ruskin
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser ... and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. -- John Ruskin
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In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven. -- John Ruskin
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There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree. -- John Ruskin
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There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him. -- John Ruskin
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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. -- John Ruskin
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Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength. -- John Ruskin
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears! -- John Ruskin
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. -- John Ruskin
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That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it. -- John Ruskin
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Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. -- John Ruskin
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Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error. -- John Ruskin
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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant 'well-being,' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money. -- John Ruskin
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Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight. -- John Ruskin
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See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. -- John Ruskin
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Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced. -- John Ruskin
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Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work? -- John Ruskin
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. -- John Ruskin
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. -- John Ruskin
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong. -- John Ruskin
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The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him. -- John Ruskin
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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
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Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday. -- John Ruskin
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The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one. -- John Ruskin
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. -- John Ruskin
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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work. -- John Ruskin
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So then, men may let their great powers lie dormant, while they employ their mean and petty powers on mean and petty objects; but it is physically impossible to employ a great power, except on a great object. -- John Ruskin
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There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. -- John Ruskin
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Don't just look at buildings ... watch them. -- John Ruskin
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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. -- John Ruskin
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I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. -- John Ruskin
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If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law. -- John Ruskin
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. -- John Ruskin
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change. -- John Ruskin
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The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching. -- John Ruskin
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A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. -- John Ruskin
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Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge -- John Ruskin
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You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye. -- John Ruskin
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do -- John Ruskin
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There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope. -- John Ruskin
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? -- John Ruskin
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Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces. -- John Ruskin
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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present. -- John Ruskin
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty. -- John Ruskin
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I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. -- John Ruskin
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Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds. -- John Ruskin
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The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him. -- John Ruskin
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The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. -- John Ruskin
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To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction. -- John Ruskin
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Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. -- John Ruskin
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We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources ... there would be little wealth for anyone. -- John Ruskin
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Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. -- John Ruskin
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. -- John Ruskin
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The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. -- John Ruskin
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No day is without its innocent hope. -- John Ruskin
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. -- John Ruskin
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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. -- John Ruskin
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He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. -- John Ruskin
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. -- John Ruskin
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The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. -- John Ruskin
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All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song. -- John Ruskin
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. -- John Ruskin
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It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born. -- John Ruskin
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone. -- John Ruskin
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There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn. -- John Ruskin
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In order that people may be happy in their work,
these three things are needed:
they must be fit for it;
they must not do too much of it;
and they must have a sense of success in it. -- John Ruskin
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. -- John Ruskin
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We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men. -- John Ruskin
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The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity. -- John Ruskin
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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end. -- John Ruskin
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The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households. -- John Ruskin
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Civilization is the making of civil persons. -- John Ruskin
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A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. -- John Ruskin
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It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching -- John Ruskin
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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right. -- John Ruskin
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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. -- John Ruskin
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The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion 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. -- John Ruskin
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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches. -- John Ruskin
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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. -- John Ruskin
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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately. -- John Ruskin
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. -- John Ruskin
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We shall be led as much to the street and the cottage as to the temple and the tower; and shall be more interested in buildings raised by feeling, -- John Ruskin
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That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. -- John Ruskin
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The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance. -- John Ruskin
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To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy. -- John Ruskin
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Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. -- John Ruskin
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The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them -- John Ruskin
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To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world. -- John Ruskin
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. -- John Ruskin
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The rich and the poor have met, God is their light. -- John Ruskin
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He who is not actively kind is cruel! -- John Ruskin
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In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. -- John Ruskin
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You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them? -- John Ruskin
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We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed. -- John Ruskin
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. -- John Ruskin
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When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic. -- John Ruskin
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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? -- John Ruskin
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If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it. -- John Ruskin
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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. -- John Ruskin
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. -- John Ruskin
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. -- John Ruskin
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That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green. -- John Ruskin
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Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. -- John Ruskin
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All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud. -- John Ruskin
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Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor. -- John Ruskin
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We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining. -- John Ruskin
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Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after. -- John Ruskin
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. -- John Ruskin
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No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart. -- John Ruskin
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Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man. -- John Ruskin
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. -- John Ruskin
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Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it. -- John Ruskin
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People cannot live by lending money to one another. -- John Ruskin
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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle -- John Ruskin
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If some people see angels where others only see empty space, let them paint the angels; only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic. -- John Ruskin
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. -- John Ruskin
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God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it. -- John Ruskin
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Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. -- John Ruskin
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Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that. -- John Ruskin
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Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch. -- John Ruskin
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. -- John Ruskin
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it. -- John Ruskin
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Every good piece of art ... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it. -- John Ruskin
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. -- John Ruskin
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. -- John Ruskin
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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy. -- John Ruskin
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One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. -- John Ruskin
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I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface. -- John Ruskin
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. -- John Ruskin
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Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,
which it is the pride of utmost age to recover. -- John Ruskin
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For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. -- John Ruskin
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -- John Ruskin
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. -- John Ruskin
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The enormous influence of novelty
the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment
is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous. -- John Ruskin
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure. -- John Ruskin
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There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude. -- John Ruskin
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. -- John Ruskin
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The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever. -- John Ruskin
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At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours. -- John Ruskin
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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it. -- John Ruskin
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. -- John Ruskin
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. -- John Ruskin
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People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here. -- John Ruskin
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. -- John Ruskin
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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. -- John Ruskin
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Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,
energy. -- John Ruskin
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I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing ... -- John Ruskin
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. -- John Ruskin
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Everything will be found beautiful, which climate or situation render useful. -- John Ruskin
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. -- John Ruskin
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. -- John Ruskin
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. -- John Ruskin
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Work first, and then rest. -- John Ruskin
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Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal. -- John Ruskin