All John Ruskin Quotes
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
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
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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.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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