John Ruskin Quotes

• The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

  John Ruskin

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• Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

  John Ruskin

• A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

  John Ruskin

• The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

  John Ruskin

• No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

  John Ruskin

• It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

  John Ruskin

• Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not

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• Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

  John Ruskin

• Of all God’s gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

  John Ruskin

  Topics in God

• A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

  John Ruskin

• Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

  John Ruskin

  Topics in Knowledge

• Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

  John Ruskin

• We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

  John Ruskin

• Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

  John Ruskin

• Civilization is the making of civil persons.

  John Ruskin

• To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.

  John Ruskin

• You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

  John Ruskin

• No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

  John Ruskin

• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

  John Ruskin

• Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

  John Ruskin

John Ruskin (207)

Birth:	8th February, 1819
Death:	20th January, 1900
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Painter, Writer

About

John Ruskin was born in London, England. He was an English art critic, writer and painter. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford University. He served as Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. His art works shown below: Bernese Oberland, The Garden of San Miniato near Florence, Tower of the Cathedral at Sens, Bellizona, Dawn, Coniston, and Tree Study. He wrote several books include: Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Pre-Raphaelitism, The Stones of Venice, Political Economy of Art, Unto This Last, and Time and Tide.

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