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• We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

  John Ruskin

  Offending, Law, Novelists

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.15

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• There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

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  Opinion, Process, Amalgamation

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

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• Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Variety

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• Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Truth, Space

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.28, University of Virginia Press

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• Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

  John Ruskin

  Ideas, Literature, Way

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

  John Ruskin

  Fit

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• Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

  John Ruskin

  Expression, Essentials, Looks

  John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.164

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• No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

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  Art, Doe, Noble

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

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  Animal, Men, Race

  John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.276

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• The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

  John Ruskin

  Sea, Darkness, Infinity

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.46

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• I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

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  Desire, Facts, Wealth

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

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• He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

  John Ruskin

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Opinion

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• Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

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  Time, Thinking, Feelings

  "Selected writings: Edited and introduced by Peter Quennell".

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• In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

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  Spiritual, Heaven, Solitude

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.332

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• All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

  John Ruskin

  Dull, Proportion

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.300

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• All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

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  Beautiful, Peculiar, Way

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1860). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...”, p.254

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• All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

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  White, Snow, Progress

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: "A joy forever." The art of England. "Our fathers have told us." The laws of Fesole. The pleasures of England. Fiction fair and foul. Notes on the construction of sheepfolds. Inaugural address ... Cambridge School of Art, October 29th, 1858. The storm cloud of the nineteenth century. The opening of the Crystal Palace”

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• All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

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  Life, Mistake, Errors

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.171

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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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• I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

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  Sick, Obsession, Giddy

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• Always stand by form against force.

  John Ruskin

  Form, Force

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm”, p.66

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• It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.

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  Eye, Talking, Sea

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.69, University of Virginia Press

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• I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

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  Selfish, Evil, Wickedness

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• 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.

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  Men, Special, Helping

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

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• The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, He Man, Cases

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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