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• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

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  Clever, Two, Answering Questions

  John Ruskin (1875). “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew”, p.186

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• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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  Mistake, Pride, Bottom

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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• It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

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  Pride, Someone You Love, Useless

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• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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  Trust, Children, Truth

  John Ruskin (1868). “Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition”, p.37

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• At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

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  People, Trying, Judgment

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, University of Virginia Press

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• The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

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  Greatness, Squares, Civilization

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• Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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  Love, Family, Children

  The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1 (1866)

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• Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

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  Sailing, Compass, Aim

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• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

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  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

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  Law, Toil, Want

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.439

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• Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.108

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• I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

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  Believe, Mean, Humility

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• I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

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  Motivational, Believe, Humility

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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• Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

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  Change, Time, Book

  Sesames and Lilies "Of Kings' Treasuries" (1865)

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• When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

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  Motivational, Witty, Attitude

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• A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

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  Wise, Heart, Groups

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War”, p.187

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• Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

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  Music, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  1881 Letter.

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• The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

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  Love, Thank You, Appreciation

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• All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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  Art, Drawing, Paper

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

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  Heart, Thinking, History

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• There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

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  Flower, Garden, Ornaments

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Stones of Venice”, p.339

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

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  Christian, Army, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 134, 1895.

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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

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  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  Stones of Venice vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 17 (1851)

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• On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

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  Patience, Strong, Failure

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• The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

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  Bible, Christian, Book

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