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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin
Love, Inspirational, Motivational

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

John Ruskin
Love, Family, Children
The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1 (1866)

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin
Love, Beauty, Beautiful
Stones of Venice vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 17 (1851)

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

John Ruskin
Love, Thank You, Appreciation

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

John Ruskin
Love, Men, Forever
John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

John Ruskin
Love, Children, Past

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

John Ruskin
Love, Change, Men
John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.290

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

John Ruskin
Love, Birthday, Lying
"The Complete Works of John Ruskin".

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

John Ruskin
Love, People, Needs

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

John Ruskin
Love, Happiness, Men
"Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin".

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