John Ruskin Quotes
122 John Ruskin quotes:
"Civilization is the making of civil persons."
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"The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge."
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"We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind."
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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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"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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"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most."
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"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
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"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
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"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."
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"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."
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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."
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"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
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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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"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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"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
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"To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also."
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"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."
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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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"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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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
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