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Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

John Ruskin
Confused, Mean, Understanding
John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.1

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

John Ruskin
Understanding

The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

John Ruskin
Choices, Understanding, Weakness
John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.195

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