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There are many religions, but there is only one morality (John Ruskin Quotes)
Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think (John Ruskin Quotes)
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect (John Ruskin Quotes)
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying (John Ruskin Quotes)
See! This our fathers did for us (John Ruskin Quotes)
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass (John Ruskin Quotes)
Architecture is the work of nations (John Ruskin Quotes)
Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house (John Ruskin Quotes)
He who is not actively kind is cruel! (John Ruskin Quotes)
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty (John Ruskin Quotes)
One can’t be angry when one looks at a penguin (John Ruskin Quotes)
God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it (John Ruskin Quotes)
The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one (John Ruskin Quotes)
When we build, let us think that we build for ever (John Ruskin Quotes)
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality (John Ruskin Quotes)
God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it (John Ruskin Quotes)
But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours (John Ruskin Quotes)
The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design (John Ruskin Quotes)
The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don’t mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful (John Ruskin Quotes)
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)