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John Ruskin Quotes

John Ruskin quotes

English Writer, Painter February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900

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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. John Ruskin
To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy. John Ruskin
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things? not merely industrious, but to love industry? not merely learned, but to love knowledge? not merely pure, but to love purity? not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "When love and skill work together, expect a materpiece."
When love and skill work together, expect a materpiece. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love..."
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather..."
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
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. John Ruskin
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain... John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the..."
Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought..."
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "The best thing in life aren't things."
The best thing in life aren't things. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "Whether for life or death, do your own work well."
Whether for life or death, do your own work well. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life,..."
Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. John Ruskin

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