All John Ruskin Quotes
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.
John Ruskin
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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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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
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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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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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