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

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.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

John Ruskin
Successful, Power, Best Effort

It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

John Ruskin
Power, Thinking, Iron
John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.317

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

John Ruskin
Spiritual, Animal, Power
"Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

John Ruskin
Power, Stronger, Association
John Ruskin (1849). “Of ideas of beauty”, p.32

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

John Ruskin
Power, Light, Evil
John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.300, University of Virginia Press

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

John Ruskin
Power, Men, Use
John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.108

There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

John Ruskin
Latin, Power, Drawing
John Ruskin (1859). “The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners”, p.4

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