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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death (John Ruskin Quotes)
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work (John Ruskin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art (John Ruskin Quotes)
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end (John Ruskin Quotes)