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John Ruskin Quotes
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All of one’s life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time (John Ruskin Quotes)
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer (John Ruskin Quotes)
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent (John Ruskin Quotes)
If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it (John Ruskin Quotes)
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it (John Ruskin Quotes)
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor (John Ruskin Quotes)
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close (John Ruskin Quotes)
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books (John Ruskin Quotes)
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride (John Ruskin Quotes)
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime (John Ruskin Quotes)
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings (John Ruskin Quotes)