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John Ruskin Quotes

John Ruskin

English weiter and art critic

Nationality: English
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1819-1900
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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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!
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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.
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollecti
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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
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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.
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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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.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbour.
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Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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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.
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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.
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men -broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
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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.
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There is no wealth but life.
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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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?
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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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.
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on peo
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Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge g
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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.
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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.
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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
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No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can s
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The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.
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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
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The best work never was and never will be done for money.
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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.
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