John Ruskin Quotes About Morning

Quotes about: Morning

• Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Short Life, Dawn

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

• Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.338

• There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.

  John Ruskin

  Sweet, Morning, Light

  1886-8 Praeterita, vol.3, pt.4,'Joanna's Cave', note. Ruskin 704

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