Quotes about John Ruskin

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is...

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out...

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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil;...

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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to...

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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well:...

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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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