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• Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

  John Ruskin

  Bible, Mother, Children

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• Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Hammers

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.

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  Beauty, Character, Thinking

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• Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

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  Knowledge, Giving, Pleasure

  "The Stones of Venice".

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• However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

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  Pain, Effort, Dull

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

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  Mind, Gentleman, Firsts

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.278

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• Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

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  Knowledge, Science, Law

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• Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

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  Dirty, Pay, Clean

  'Sesame and Lilies' (1865) lecture 1 'Of Kings' Treasuries' 30, note

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• I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.

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  Believe, Shadow, Building

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.70

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• Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Education, Animal

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works: Deucalion. The king of the Golden River. The eagle's nest. Arrows of the chace”

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• We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.

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  Pride, Self, People

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.148, Parlor Press LLC

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• You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

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  Nature, Gambling, Neighbor

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

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  Prayer, Mind, Atheism

  John Ruskin (1879). “Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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• I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

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  Christian, Father, House

  John Ruskin (1900). “The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc”

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• Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

  John Ruskin

  Honesty, Night, Light

  'Time and Tide' (1867) letter 8

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• There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

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  Law, Historical, Kaleidoscope

  John Ruskin (1909). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

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  Choices, Understanding, Weakness

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.195

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• Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

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  Education, Teaching, Mean

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.230, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

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  Sacrifice, Giving, Religion

  John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.17

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• The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Impossible

  John Ruskin, Cook (1904). “Works”

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• Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

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  Conceited, Men, Vanity

  John Ruskin (1899). “On the Old Road: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature (Complete)”, p.170, Library of Alexandria

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• If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

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  Design, Vices, Virtue

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.102

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• The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Charity, Bread

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• No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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  Design, Noble, Architecture

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.13

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• All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.

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  Clouds, Tree, Opinion

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters”, p.11

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