All John Ruskin Quotes
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
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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.
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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