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John Ruskin quotes about time

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

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Perhaps some of my hearers this evening may have occasionally heard it stated of me that I am rather apt to contradict myself. I hope I am exceedingly apt to do so. I never met wth a question yet, of any importance, which did not need, for the right solution of it, at least one positive and one negative answer, like an equation of the second degree. Mostly, matters of any consequence are three-sided, or four-sided, or polygonal; and the trotting round a polygon is severe work for people any... John Ruskin
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. 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
John Ruskin quote: "Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and..."
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the..."
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. John Ruskin
John Ruskin quote: "Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is..."
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. John Ruskin

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