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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

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.

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

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

John Ruskin
Sarcastic, Flower, Humanity
John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.94

The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

John Ruskin
Wall, Long, Humanity
John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.172

Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

John Ruskin
Ignorance, Humanity, Imperfect
John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.80

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

John Ruskin
War, History, Humanity

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