All John Ruskin Quotes
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
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