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John Ruskin Quotes about Heart

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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

Heart, Caring, Garden

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

Heart, Thinking, History

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

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”

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.

Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

Heart, Dedication, Humanity

John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.41

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

Real, Heart, Mean

"Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

Heart, Generosity, Mind

John Ruskin (1865). “Sesame and Lilies, etc”, p.105

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

Mother, Pain, Heart

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

Heart, Lasts, Made

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.305, University of Virginia Press

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

Heart, Character, Blood

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

Hurt, Fall, Heart

John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.14

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

Children, Lying, Heart

John Ruskin (1872). “The Works of John Ruskin”, p.109

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

Heart, Winning, Helping

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.12, John Ruskin

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

Heart, Great Men, Gods Will

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1865). “Precious Thoughts”, p.101

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

Heart, Mean, Greatness

'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

War, Heart, Blood

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.278, University of Virginia Press

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Book, Heart, Artist

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

Heart, Dust, Giving

John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.6

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