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John Ruskin quotes
“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
— John Ruskin
“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
— John Ruskin
“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”
— John Ruskin
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
— John Ruskin
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
— John Ruskin
“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”
— John Ruskin
“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”
— John Ruskin
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
— John Ruskin
“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.”
— John Ruskin
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”
— John Ruskin
“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
— John Ruskin
“Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”
— John Ruskin
“There is no wealth but life.”
— John Ruskin
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
— John Ruskin
“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.”
— John Ruskin
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
— John Ruskin
“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
— John Ruskin
“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
— John Ruskin
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
— John Ruskin
“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”
— John Ruskin
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
— John Ruskin
“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
“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
— John Ruskin
“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
— John Ruskin
“A book worth reading is worth buying.”
— John Ruskin