John Ruskin quotes - page 8

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. (John Ruskin)
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. View quote
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? View quote
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. View quote
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. View quote
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. View quote
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. View quote
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. View quote
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. View quote
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Civilization is the making of civil persons. View quote
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. (John Ruskin)
God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the place where He wishes us to be employed; and that employment is truly "our Father's business." He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them, if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves, or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault. And we may always be sure, whatever we are doing, that we cannot be pleasing Him, if we are not happy ourselves. View quote
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Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors. View quote
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. View quote
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At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them. View quote
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My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned. View quote
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. View quote
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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. View quote
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. View quote
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. View quote
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future. (John Ruskin)
Ask a great money-maker what he wants to do with his money, - he never knows. He doesn't make it to do anything with it. He gets it only that he may get it. "What will you make of what you have got?" View quote
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances. View quote
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The best work never was and never will be done for money. View quote
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...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. View quote
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