All John Ruskin Quotes
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John Ruskin
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
John Ruskin
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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
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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.
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
John Ruskin
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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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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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