John Ruskin Quotes
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
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That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.
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No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.
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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.
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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.
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In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
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Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
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The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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Butforme, the Alps and their people were a like beautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
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I know well that happiness is in little things.
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I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.
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What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.
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Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.