John Ruskin Quotes

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
  Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
  Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
  Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Sweet, Hands

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Thinking, Essentials

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Ethics of the Dust”, p.116, John Ruskin

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• It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Running, Business

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

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  There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Men, People

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• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

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  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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  What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

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  Motivational, Believe, Acceptance

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

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• Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Nature, Sunset

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

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  Doors, Window

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• No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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  Rain, Individual, Responsible

  "Natural Disasters Condolence Speech - Adam Bandt Discusses Natural Disasters and Climate Change". adam-bandt.greensmps.org.au. February 09, 2011.

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• Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

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  Heart, Caring, Garden

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• Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

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  Sympathy, Country, Father

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• When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

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  Father, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

  John Ruskin

  Simple, Simplicity, Complicated

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.15

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• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

  John Ruskin

  Class, Two, People

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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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• The best thing in life aren't things.

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  Life, Best Things, Values

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• I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

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  Believe, Mean, Humility

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• One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

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  Anger, Looks, Penguins

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

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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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• The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

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  Education, Justice, Hunger And Thirst

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• The best work never was and never will be done for money.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Humor, Done

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