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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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• 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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• Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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  Workout, Simplicity, Consumerism

  The Eagle's Nest ch. 5 (1872)

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

  John Ruskin

  Work, Humor, Done

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

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  Heart, Thinking, History

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• I know well that happiness is in little things.

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  Littles, Little Things, Wells

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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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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• We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

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  Two, Design, Firsts

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.77, John Ruskin

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• It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

  John Ruskin

  Money, Purpose, Literature

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• Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Family, Children

  The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1 (1866)

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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

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  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  Stones of Venice vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 17 (1851)

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• There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

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  Country, Mean, Men

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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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.

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  Love, Children, Past

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• There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Garden, Ornaments

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Stones of Venice”, p.339

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• There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

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  Hands, Honor, Asking

  John Ruskin (1857). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.5

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• On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

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  Patience, Strong, Failure

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

  John Ruskin

  Doors, Window

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• The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

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  Christian, Letting Go, Men

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• In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

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  Country, Children, Always Trying

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• There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

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  Strong, Class, Wicked

  John Ruskin (19??). “Ruskin's Works”

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• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

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  Positive, Art, Reality

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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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• Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

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  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)

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• To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Profound, Wells

  John Ruskin (1856). “Modern Painters”, p.37

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