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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.

  John Ruskin

  Reality, Light, Shining

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

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• No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

  John Ruskin

  Hope, Temptation, Determined

  John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

  John Ruskin

  Thinking, Evil, People

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1859). “The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion”, p.141

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• What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

  John Ruskin

  Quality, Ends

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• The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most
  Serviceable to Others

  John Ruskin

  Men, Training

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

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• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Men, Forever

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

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• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

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  Art, Children, Book

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

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• Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

  John Ruskin

  Journey, Light, Hiking

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• Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

  John Ruskin

  Poetry, Saws, Speak

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• Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

  John Ruskin

  Self, Knowing God, Knows

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters”, p.204

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• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

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  Sex, Equality, Giving

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

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• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Architecture, Painter

  'Lectures on Architecture and Painting' (1853) 61, addenda

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• To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

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  Book, Knowledge And Power, Sight

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe,
  and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and
  balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the
  science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It
  means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something
  nice to eat.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Nice, Food

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• All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Thinking, Essentials

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Ethics of the Dust”, p.116, John Ruskin

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• But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

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  Kings, Fighting, Army

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.307, Courier Corporation

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• Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
  Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
  Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
  Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

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  Life, Sweet, Hands

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

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  Writing, Thinking, Use

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works: The laws of Fésole. A joy forever. Our fathers have told us. Inaugural address. Modern painters,v.1”

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• That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Numbers, Noble

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

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• The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Strong, Anger

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• Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Dedication, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.41

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• Order and system are nobler things than power.

  John Ruskin

  Order

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.40

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• Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Self, Toil

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• Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Reader, Skip

  "A Joy for Ever". Book by John Ruskin, note 6, 1857.

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• Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Stupid, Three

  John Ruskin, David Carrier, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes (1997). “England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste”, p.31, Psychology Press

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