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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 5

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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

Too Much, Littles, Pay

"The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Peace, Winning, Evil

John Ruskin (2015). “The Two Paths”, p.160, John Ruskin

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Men, Trade, Live By

There is no wealth but life.

Life, Wisdom, Wealth

'Unto this Last' (1862) essay 4, 77

Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure? Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet- Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

Life, Sweet, Hands

John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of 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.

Relationship, Mean, Humility

You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

Mean, Eye, Soul

John Ruskin (1906). “The Works of John Ruskin”

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

Lasts, Taste, Firsts

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Blue, Color, Delight

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.414

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Change, Running, Rainy Day

"The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.

Art, Nice, Food

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

Sex, Equality, Giving

John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

Trying, Needs, Impossible

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.53, John Ruskin

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

Doors, Window

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Education, Children, Likes And Dislikes

John Ruskin (1903). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain”

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

Spiritual, Animal, Men

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.98, University of Virginia Press

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

Christian, Army, Light

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 134, 1895.

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

Beautiful, Hate, Passion

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Children, Character, Society

"Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870".

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Money, Purpose, Literature

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Country, Numbers, Noble

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

The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others

Men, Training

John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

Heart, Needs, Want

John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Beautiful, Darkness, Gazing

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.101, University of Virginia Press

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Art, Perfection, Saying Nothing

John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.352

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