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The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
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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
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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 -
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 -
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.
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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The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
John Ruskin -
The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
John Ruskin
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The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.
John Ruskin -
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
John Ruskin -
Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
John Ruskin -
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 -
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.
John Ruskin -
Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
John Ruskin
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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 -
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
John Ruskin -
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
John Ruskin -
It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
John Ruskin -
All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.
John Ruskin -
The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
John Ruskin
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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 -
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
John Ruskin -
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.
John Ruskin -
My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.
John Ruskin