John Ruskin Quotes
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
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No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
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Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolish misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual, - coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.
[Man]
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O powers illimitable! it is but the outer hem of God's great mantle, our poor stars do gem.
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Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
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Of all the pulpits from which the human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.
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Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
[Quality]
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Railway travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
[Beauty]
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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.
[Brevity]
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Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.
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