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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

Trust, Children, Truth

John Ruskin (1868). “Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition”, p.37

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

John Ruskin

Art, Truth, Firsts

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

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

John Ruskin

Truth, Pride, Childhood

John Ruskin (1855). “Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth”, p.29

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

John Ruskin

Art, Truth, Space

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.28, University of Virginia Press