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The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
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God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath.
John Ruskin
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On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.
John Ruskin -
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
John Ruskin -
I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.
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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.
John Ruskin -
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.
John Ruskin -
Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.
John Ruskin
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If it is the love of that which your work represents – if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you – if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you – if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
John Ruskin -
Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
John Ruskin -
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.
John Ruskin -
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
John Ruskin -
One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.
John Ruskin
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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
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Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
John Ruskin -
To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
John Ruskin -
Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.
John Ruskin -
The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.
John Ruskin -
There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
John Ruskin
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No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
John Ruskin -
The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
John Ruskin -
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
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Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
John Ruskin