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

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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. John Ruskin
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. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the..."
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. John Ruskin
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. John Ruskin
To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few. John Ruskin
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions. John Ruskin
I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying..."
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free..."
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. John Ruskin

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