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The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure (John Ruskin Quotes)
The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it (John Ruskin Quotes)
Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons (John Ruskin Quotes)
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic (John Ruskin Quotes)
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength (John Ruskin Quotes)
Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather (John Ruskin Quotes)
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way (John Ruskin Quotes)
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation (John Ruskin Quotes)
There is religion in everything around us, a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of nature, which man would do well to imitate (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is far better to give work which is above the men than to educate the men to be above their work (John Ruskin Quotes)
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime (John Ruskin Quotes)
In the world’s affairs there is no design so great or good but it will take twenty wise men to help it forward a few inches; and a single fool can stop it (John Ruskin Quotes)