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• A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

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  Pay, Can Do, You Choose

  John Ruskin (1800). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century”

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• Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Short Life, Dawn

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

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• Do not think of your faults, still less of other's 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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.108

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• It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

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  Life, Three, Circumstances

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• It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

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  Pride, Someone You Love, Useless

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• Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

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  Sailing, Compass, Aim

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• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

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  Clever, Two, Answering Questions

  John Ruskin (1875). “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew”, p.186

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• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

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  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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  Mistake, Pride, Bottom

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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• When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

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  Motivational, Witty, Attitude

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• The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

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  Bible, Christian, Book

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• There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

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  Jesus, Thinking, Expectations

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• When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

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  Men, Effort, Grows

  John Ruskin (1871). “Works. (Author's Ed.)”, p.59

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• The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

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  Love, Thank You, Appreciation

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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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  Cute, Girl, Flower

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

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  Law, Toil, Want

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.439

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• 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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  Life, Book, Reading

  Sesame and Lilies preface (1865)

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• The best thing in life aren't things.

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  Life, Best Things, Values

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• All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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  Art, Drawing, Paper

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• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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  Trust, Children, Truth

  John Ruskin (1868). “Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition”, p.37

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

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  Beauty, Patience, Perseverance

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.88, Parlor Press LLC

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• I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

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  Motivational, Believe, Humility

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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• If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

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  Success, Years, Long

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• A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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  Money, Kindness, Helping Others

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.344

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• Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

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  Change, Time, Book

  Sesames and Lilies "Of Kings' Treasuries" (1865)

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