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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 10

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Love, Children, Past

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

Art, Writing, Discipline

"A Joy for Ever: And Its Price in the Market". Book by John Ruskin, note 6, 1857.

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

Pockets, Would Be, Use

'Unto this Last' (1862) essay 2, 27

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

Cutting, Sculpture, Stones

John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.157

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Art, Greek, Visionaries

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.58, University of Virginia Press

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

Half, Language, Dependent

John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.9

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Country, Children, Always Trying

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

Life, Death, Law

Unto This Last Essay 3 (1862)

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Work, Men, Gentleman

John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.24

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Tree, Sublime, Forests

John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 3, sections 1-2 of the imaginative and theoretic faculties”, p.51

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Money, War, Evil

John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.22

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

Furniture, Blame, Praise

John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.340

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

Believe, Envy, Bird

Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.

Girl, Night, Giving

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 122, 1895.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

Weed, Fighting, Men

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

Children, Teaching, Science

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Education, Giving, Educate

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

Life, Hate, Hands

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Art, Truth, Space

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.28, University of Virginia Press

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

Character, Variety

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Beauty, Beautiful

John Ruskin, Frederick William Roe (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Love, Change, Men

John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.290

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

Opinion, Process, Amalgamation

John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.2

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Offending, Law, Novelists

John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.15

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

Music, Writing, Design

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 443, 1895.

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