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

  John Ruskin

  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.

  John Ruskin

  Ignorance, Profound, Wells

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

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• No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Doe, Noble

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

  John Ruskin

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Opinion

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• Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

  John Ruskin

  Knowing, Curiosity, Dull

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• It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Passion, Law

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• You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Winning, Evil

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Two Paths”, p.160, John Ruskin

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• The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

  John Ruskin

  Sympathy, Communication, Secret

  John Ruskin (1872). “Lectures on Art, Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870”, p.72

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• In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

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  Appreciation, Strong, Looks

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.885, John Ruskin

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• The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

  John Ruskin

  Political, Slavery, Politics

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War”, p.113

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• Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

  John Ruskin

  Imperfection, Essentials, Perfection And Imperfection

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.14

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• The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

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  Relationship, Mean, Humility

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• Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

  John Ruskin

  Education, School, Diversity

  Unto This Last Essay 2 (1862)

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

  John Ruskin

  Thinking, People

  1873 Modern Painters, vol.3, pt.4, ch.16.

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• The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Ocean, Ignorance

  John Ruskin (1907). “The stones of Venice”

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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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• Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

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  Passion, Skills, Experience

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• The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

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  Flower, Good Woman, Path

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

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  Happiness, Expression, Law

  John Ruskin (1900). “The Stones of Venice (Complete)”, p.763, Library of Alexandria

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• He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

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  Life, Trust, Interest

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.319

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• Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

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  Life, Forever, Noble

  "Pearls for Young Ladies".

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• Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

  John Ruskin

  Long, Political, Wish

  Unto This Last Essay 3 (1862)

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• I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Hurt, Animal

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, University of Virginia Press

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• The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Essence, Political

  John Ruskin (1910*). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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