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Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, There is no music in a rest, let us not forget there is the

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

John Ruskin
Patience, Writing, Long
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

John Ruskin
Writing, Thinking, Hymns

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

John Ruskin
Writing, Reader, Skip
"A Joy for Ever". Book by John Ruskin, note 6, 1857.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

John Ruskin
Writing, Thinking, Use
John Ruskin (19??). “Works: The laws of Fésole. A joy forever. Our fathers have told us. Inaugural address. Modern painters,v.1”

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin
Art, Book, Writing
St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

John Ruskin
Writing, Law, Genius
John Ruskin (1873). “The fall”, p.97

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

John Ruskin
Art, Writing, Discipline
"A Joy for Ever: And Its Price in the Market". Book by John Ruskin, note 6, 1857.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

John Ruskin
Music, Writing, Design
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 443, 1895.

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

John Ruskin
Writing, History, May
John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.164

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