John Ruskin Quotes

• To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

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• Architecture is the work of nations.

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• Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

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• You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

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• The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

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• The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

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• Modern 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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• Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

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• 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.

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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.

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• He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

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

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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.

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• A book worth reading is worth buying.

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• Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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• He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

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• Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

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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.

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• Do not think of your faults, still less of others’ 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.

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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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