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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

John Ruskin
Work, Humor, Done

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

John Ruskin
Work, Self, Toil

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

John Ruskin
Art, Work, Perfect
John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.183, University of Virginia Press

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

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Work, Men, Gentleman
John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.24

Work first, and then rest.

John Ruskin
Work, Firsts
John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.109

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

John Ruskin
Work, Wish, Kingdoms
John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.62, John Ruskin

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

John Ruskin
Clever, Work, Men
John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.69, Parlor Press LLC

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin
Work, Men, Order
John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1860). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...”, p.429

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

John Ruskin
Work, Evil, Labor Day

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

John Ruskin
Work, Two, Healthy
John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.169, Cosimo, Inc.

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