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• God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

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  Father, Giving, Wish

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.132

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• A book worth reading is worth buying.

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  Book, Reading, Buying

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• Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.

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  Life, Beautiful, Race

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 6-9 of leaf beauty. of cloud beauty. of ideas of relation”, p.4

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• There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

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  Work, Men, Gentleman

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.24

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• I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

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  Average, Numbers, People

  John Ruskin, Kenneth Clark (1991). “Selected writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

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  Passion, Sacrifice, Men

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

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• I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

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  Believe, Sight, Drawing

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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  Women, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.91, University of Virginia Press

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• That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

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  May, Ruins, Wealth

  John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.253, John Ruskin

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• It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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  Art, Perfection, Saying Nothing

  John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.352

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• It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

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  Wisdom, Teacher, Teaching

  John Ruskin (1899*). “John Ruskin's Works”

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• Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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  Music, Teacher, Order

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• All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

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  Song, Firsts, Lips

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm”, p.56

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• No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

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  Real, Heart, Mean

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

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• Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

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  Rude, Stories, Records

  'The Seven Lamps of Architecture' (1849) ch. 6 'The Lamp of Memory' 7

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• The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

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  Men, Literature, Vulgar

  John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.798, Library of Alexandria

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever.

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  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Memory" sec. 10 (1849)

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• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

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• Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

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  Watches, Looks, Architecture

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• The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

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  Way, Firsts, Easy

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

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• Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

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  Art, Quality, Lows

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• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

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  Art, Truth, Firsts

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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  Strength, Country, Don't Give Up

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: Fors clavigera”

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• Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.

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  Brother, Hate, Justice

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War”, p.28

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• You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

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  Time, Flames, Teeth

  John Ruskin (2006). “A Joy for Ever, And Its Price in the Market”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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