John Ruskin quotes - page 10

What does cooking mean It means the knowledge of Media and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits. and balms and spices.... I means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that your are to see imperatively, that everyone has something nice to eat. (John Ruskin)
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. View quote
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No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. View quote
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does. View quote
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The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men. View quote
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What is poetry The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. View quote
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Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength. View quote
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Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens There is no putting by that crown queens you must always be queens to your lovers queens to your husbands and sons queens of higher mystery to the world beyond.... But alas you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest. View quote
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People cannot live by lending money to one another. View quote
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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work. View quote
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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end. (John Ruskin)
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength. View quote
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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it. View quote
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He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold. View quote
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All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. View quote
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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. View quote
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. View quote
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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. View quote
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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. View quote
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. View quote
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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done. (John Ruskin)
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. View quote
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change. View quote
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them. View quote
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty. View quote
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