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• Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Ignorance, Humanity, Imperfect

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.80

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• What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

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  Reality, Men, Practice

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice”, p.109

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• Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.

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  Real, Men, Thrones

  John Ruskin (1912). “The fall”

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• Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Shells, May

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: "A joy forever." The art of England. "Our fathers have told us." The laws of Fesole. The pleasures of England. Fiction fair and foul. Notes on the construction of sheepfolds. Inaugural address ... Cambridge School of Art, October 29th, 1858. The storm cloud of the nineteenth century. The opening of the Crystal Palace”

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• The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

  John Ruskin

  Needs, Spirit

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.86, John Ruskin

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• God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

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  Giving, Duty, Giving Time

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

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• Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

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  Art, Science, Men

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.36

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• One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Taken, Nurse

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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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.

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  Passion, Men, Creation Of Man

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.109

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• English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

  John Ruskin

  Artist, Ruined, Residence

  1873 Modern Painters, vol.1, pt.1,'Of General Principles'.

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• 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.

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  Success, Real, Law

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• Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

  John Ruskin

  Action, Divine, Willing

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.28

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• We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.

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  Pain, Men, People

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.34

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• One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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  Death, Dying, Doe

  John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.232, John Ruskin

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• What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

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  Regret, Men, Childhood

  John Ruskin “Two paths. Lectures on art, delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870. Aratra Pentelici. Time and tide. Pre-Raphaelitism. The eagle's nest. King of the Golden River. The relation between Michael Angelo and Tintoret”

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• Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

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  Heart, Mean, Greatness

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.

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  Self, Cities, Rising

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857”, p.124

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• It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

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  Character, Two, Bears

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.94

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• Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

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  Art, Secret, Excellence

  John Ruskin (1868). “Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious”, p.155

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• There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.

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  Nature, Color, Effort

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 1-2. Of general principles, and Of truth. 5th ed”, p.154

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• It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

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  Appreciation, Men, Matter

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.2

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• The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

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  Beauty, Animal, Intellectual

  John Ruskin (1849). “Of ideas of beauty”, p.97

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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.

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  Art, Greatness, Expression

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.188

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• Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

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  Flower, Men, Giving

  John Ruskin (1918). “Selections and Essays”, Scholarly Press

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• The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

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  Law, Form, Shows

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.7

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