John Ruskin Quotes - Page 22

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• Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.

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  Beautiful, Death, Horse

  John Ruskin (1902*). “Works”

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• As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.

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  Cutting, Jewels, Land

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• Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

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  Greatness, Men, Expression

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.346

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• The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.

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  Nature, Sea, Two

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.55

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• The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

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  Law, Construction, Metallic

  John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.36

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• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

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  Sacrifice, Simple, Skills

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• A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

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  Greatness, Effort, Done

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• Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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  Teaching, Complaining, Literature

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• Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

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  Ambition, Slavery, Whips

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• Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

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  Land, Taxation, Literature

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• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

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  Nature, Cities, Littles

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

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• God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

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  Happiness, Men, World

  John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

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• What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

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  Men, Names, Numbers

  John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.244, John Ruskin

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• Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

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  Bible, Mother, Children

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• Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

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  Education, Teaching, Mean

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.230, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Impossible

  John Ruskin, Cook (1904). “Works”

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• Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

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  Knowledge, Science, Law

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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.

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  Pain, Effort, Dull

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

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  Life, Happiness, Strong

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. V: Of mountain beauty”, p.328

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• You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

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  Nature, Gambling, Neighbor

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

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• There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

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  Law, Historical, Kaleidoscope

  John Ruskin (1909). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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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 forever.

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  Race, Forever, Peculiar

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.79

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• If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

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  Children, Father, Home

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.132, University of Virginia Press

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• 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.

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  Country, Sea, Bridges

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.138, University of Virginia Press

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• Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

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  Angel, Men, Political

  John Ruskin (1890*). “Fors Clavigera”

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