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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!
John Ruskin
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
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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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There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
John Ruskin -
Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
John Ruskin -
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
John Ruskin -
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
John Ruskin
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The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.
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God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
John Ruskin -
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
John Ruskin -
The best work never was and never will be done for money.
John Ruskin -
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.
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The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
John Ruskin
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No day is without its innocent hope.
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The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
John Ruskin -
The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
John Ruskin -
The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others.
John Ruskin -
We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.
John Ruskin
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It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.
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If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
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He who is not actively kind is cruel!
John Ruskin -
Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.
John Ruskin