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"50 John Ruskin Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 February 1819. Died: 20 January 1900 | Critic |

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most

Purest MindS Love Color
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.

Nature Painting Pictures Beauty
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There is no wealth but life

Wealth Life
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Education Teaching People Behave
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You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

You Possess Beauty Understanding
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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

Reward Man toil's Gets Becomes
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Ideal Art False Visionary
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All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

Art Expression Delight God's work
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Art Study Positive reality Ideal truth
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The best thing in life aren't things.

Best Thing Life
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To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Speak Truth Intimidation Penalty
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

Flowers Solace Ordinary Humanity
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All great art is praise

Great Art Praise
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The majesty of nature depends upon the force of the human spirit.

Majesty Nature Force Human spirit
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For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live

Truly Man Die Live
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Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

Reading Writing Education People
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The rich and the poor have met, God is their light

Rich Poor God Light
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PAINT the leaves as they grow! If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world,

Paint Leaves Grow World
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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

Banish Imperfection Expression Vitality
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All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

Books Classes Hours Time
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A book worth reading is worth owning.
Book Worth Reading Owning
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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Art Dirtying Paper Delicately
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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

Sunshine Rain Snow Good weather
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

Man Wrapped Himself Small parcel
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Dream Lofty Become
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Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Dawn Morning Beginning Life
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

You Read books Advice Advertisement
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

Path Good woman Flowers Rise
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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.

Great nations Book Words Art
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Beauty Enjoyed Light Shadows
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If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

Wish Kingdom Pray Work
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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride

Lose Pride Someone Love
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

Invreased Possession Weariness
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He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

Truth Heart Want Tongue
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Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Beautiful things Life Useless Lilies
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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.

Say Words Reader Plainest
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.

Quality Accident Intelligent effort Produce
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Think Believe End Cosequence
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Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example

Education Painful Kindness Example
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.

Soul World Poetry Religion
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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life

Imperfection Essential Know Life
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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Taste Morality Like You
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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.

Work Person Educate Above
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A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Thing Worth Choose Pay
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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

Life Waste Reading Books
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
Noyhing Beautiful True
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Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them

Imaginary Evils Indulging Reflections
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

Ask Question Way Answered
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Practice Keeping up Society Vain
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

General Pride Great Mistakes
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John Ruskin Quotes & Sayings