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There is no wealth but life.

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin
Life, Wisdom, Wealth
'Unto this Last' (1862) essay 4, 77

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

John Ruskin
Wealth, Certain, Well Being
John Ruskin (19??). “Works”

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

John Ruskin
Desire, Facts, Wealth
John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

John Ruskin
May, Ruins, Wealth
John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.253, John Ruskin

Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence.

John Ruskin
Benefits, Wealth, Aids
John Ruskin (2001). “Unto this Last”, p.29, Electric Book Company

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

John Ruskin
Men, Wealth, One Man
John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.408

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