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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.

  John Ruskin

  Bible, Christian, Book

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Cute, Girl, Flower

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

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Success, Years, Long

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• At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

  John Ruskin

  People, Trying, Judgment

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, University of Virginia Press

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• Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Children, Past

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• The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Critics, Agree

  John Ruskin (1855). “Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists and the French Exhibition”, p.11

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

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Witty, Attitude

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Pride, Someone You Love, Useless

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

  John Ruskin

  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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• Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Book, Reading

  Sesame and Lilies preface (1865)

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

  John Ruskin

  Mistake, Pride, Bottom

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

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

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Patience, Perseverance

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

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Toil, Want

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

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• The best thing in life aren't things.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Best Things, Values

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• One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

  John Ruskin

  Thinking, Disease, Liable

  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.114

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• The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Children, Likes And Dislikes

  John Ruskin (1903). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain”

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

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Believe, Humility

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

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• Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  1881 Letter.

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

  John Ruskin

  Change, Time, Book

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

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Travel, Journey, Different

  John Ruskin (1857). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 4. Of many things”

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

  John Ruskin

  Sailing, Compass, Aim

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

  John Ruskin

  Doors, Window

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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.

  John Ruskin

  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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