All John Ruskin Quotes
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
John Ruskin
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin
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