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John Ruskin Quotes
Best Quotes by John Ruskin (Top 10)
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
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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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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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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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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
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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.
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
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More John Ruskin Quotes
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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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.
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There is no wealth but life.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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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.
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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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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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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
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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.
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet
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Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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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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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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