John Ruskin Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

  John Ruskin

  Two, Design, Firsts

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.77, John Ruskin

• Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

  John Ruskin

  Birthday, Time, Past

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.94

• The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Mean, Government

  John Ruskin “Fors clavigera”

• The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Years, Literature

  Time and Tide Letter 13 (1867)

• Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

  John Ruskin

  Should Have, Duty, Known

• The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Special, Helping

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Ethics of the Dust”, p.100, John Ruskin

• The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

  John Ruskin

  Determination, Luxury, Water

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.107

• God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Duty, Giving Time

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

• It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Children, Hero

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.77

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