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• You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Eye, Soul

  John Ruskin (1906). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Appreciation, Noble

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

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• If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

  John Ruskin

  Trying, Needs, Impossible

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.53, John Ruskin

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• You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

  John Ruskin

  Understanding

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• It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

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  Education, Giving, Educate

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• There is no wealth but life.

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  Life, Wisdom, Wealth

  'Unto this Last' (1862) essay 4, 77

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• Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

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  Genius, Seeing, Superiors

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• A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

  John Ruskin

  Dog, Character, Men

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

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

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  Christian, Army, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 134, 1895.

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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.

  John Ruskin

  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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• Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

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  Blue, Color, Delight

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.414

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• All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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  Beautiful, Darkness, Gazing

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.101, University of Virginia Press

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• What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

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  Wealth, Certain, Well Being

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works”

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• A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

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  Beautiful, Hate, Passion

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• The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Cities, Political

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press

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• Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

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  Greatness, Space, Mind

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• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Anticipation, True Happiness

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

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  Ignorance, Responsibility

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

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• All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.

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  Fall, Eye, Men

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• He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

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  Heart, Needs, Want

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

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  Beauty, Beautiful

  John Ruskin, Frederick William Roe (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

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  Reputation, Born, Remembered

  John Ruskin (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.119

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• Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

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  Spiritual, Animal, Men

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.98, University of Virginia Press

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• Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

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  Reality, Light, Shining

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.172

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• The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

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  Animal, Promise, Delight

  John Ruskin (1858). “Modern Painters: (pt.3) Of ideas of beauty”, p.86

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