John Ruskin Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• 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

• Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Children, Past

• The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Past, Men

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857”, p.56

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