John Ruskin quotes - page 11

This is the true nature of home it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. (John Ruskin)
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates. View quote
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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. View quote
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The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. View quote
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Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life anarchy and competition the laws of death. View quote
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself my disgust at her barbarity clumsiness darkness bitter mockery of herself is the most desolating. View quote
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. View quote
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There are many religions, but there is only one morality. View quote
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There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope. View quote
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling only out of your neighbor. View quote
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However good you may be you have faults however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them. (John Ruskin)
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. View quote
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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. View quote
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. View quote
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It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born. View quote
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. View quote
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The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one. View quote
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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work. View quote
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The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbours pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you. View quote
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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. View quote
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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)
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things. View quote
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Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work. View quote
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. View quote
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The last act crowns the play. View quote
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