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• The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

  John Ruskin

  Greatness, Squares, Civilization

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• To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

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  Expression, Imperfection, Vitality

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.184, University of Virginia Press

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• Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

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  Beautiful, Pain, Memories

  John Ruskin “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

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  Wise, Heart, Groups

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War”, p.187

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• One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

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  Change, Long, Impossible

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• God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

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  God, Religious, Giving

  "The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation".

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• Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

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  Patience, Writing, Long

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

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• Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

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  Art, Thoughtful, Color

  1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.ii, ch.5.

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• A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

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  Art, Men, Giraffe

  John Ruskin (1894). “Letters on Art and Literature”

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• Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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  Sunset, New Beginnings, Sunrise

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Art”, p.97, John Ruskin

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• Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

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  Men, Trade, Live By

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• Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

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  Confused, Mean, Understanding

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.1

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• So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

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  Children, Character, Society

  "Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870".

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• It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

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  Too Much, Littles, Pay

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

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• The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

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  Flower, Firsts, Delight

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• Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

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  Art, Truth, Space

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.28, University of Virginia Press

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• He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.

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  Kings, Heart, Men

  John Ruskin (1873). “Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures”, p.67

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• the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.

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  Art, Common Sense, Becoming

  John Ruskin (1938). “Unto this last: and other essays”

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• "Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

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  Lasts, Taste, Firsts

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• Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

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  Fit

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• Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

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  God, Men, Color

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• In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

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  Writing, Thinking, Hymns

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• No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

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  Pieces, Essentials, Produce

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.169

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• The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

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  Beauty, Appreciation, Noble

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.160

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