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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Men, People

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin
Love, Inspirational, Motivational

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness
John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.108

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Life, Wise

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Education, Teacher
"The Works of John Ruskin: The crown of wild olive".

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Power, Imagination
John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Men, Greatest Love
John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Gratitude, Great Person
"Frondes Agrestes, Readings in 'Modern Painters' Chosen at Her Pleasures".

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Kindness, Opportunity

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