John Ruskin
Quotations
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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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“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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“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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“Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.” -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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“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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“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 good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.” -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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“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.” -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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“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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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” -John Ruskin
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“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.” -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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“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” -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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“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.” -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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“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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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” -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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“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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“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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“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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“Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.” -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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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” -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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“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.” -John Ruskin
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“Whether for life or death, do your own work well.” -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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.” -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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