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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 3

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Passion, Skills, Experience

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

Life, Trust, Interest

John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.319

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

Wise, Heart, Groups

John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War”, p.187

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Workout, Simplicity, Consumerism

The Eagle's Nest ch. 5 (1872)

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.

Kings, Heart, Men

John Ruskin (1873). “Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures”, p.67

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Heart, Purpose, World

John Ruskin (1899*). “John Ruskin's Works”

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

Dog, Character, Men

John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.55

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Long, Political, Wish

Unto This Last Essay 3 (1862)

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Beauty, Patience, Perseverance

John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.88, Parlor Press LLC

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

Jesus, Thinking, Expectations

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Art, Drawing, Paper

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

Sympathy, Country, Father

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

Morning, Short Life, Dawn

"Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

Expression, Imperfection, Vitality

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.184, University of Virginia Press

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

Strong, Class, Wicked

John Ruskin (19??). “Ruskin's Works”

I know well that happiness is in little things.

Littles, Little Things, Wells

John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

Music, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

1881 Letter.

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

Happiness, Expression, Law

John Ruskin (1900). “The Stones of Venice (Complete)”, p.763, Library of Alexandria

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

Country, Mean, Men

John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

Greatness, Space, Mind

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

Patience, Writing, Long

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

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

Life, Forever, Noble

"Pearls for Young Ladies".

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

Christian, Letting Go, Men

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

Song, Firsts, Lips

John Ruskin (1872). “The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm”, p.56

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

Greatness, Squares, Civilization

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