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• Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

  John Ruskin

  Hands, Punishment, Prevention

  "Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes". Book by John Ruskin, 1868.

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• You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Lightning, Incense

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.312, University of Virginia Press

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• So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.

  John Ruskin

  Regret, Long, Support

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.34

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• He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Dust, Giving

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.6

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• Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

  John Ruskin

  Funny, Hands, World Suffering

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• It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Two, Healthy

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.169, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

  John Ruskin

  Photography, Done, Literature

  John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Science, Soul

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

  John Ruskin

  Land, Long, Dresses

  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.422

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• How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Liberty, Phantoms

  John Ruskin (1861). “Selections from the writings of John Ruskin ... With a portrait”, p.334

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• You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Expression, People

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.274, University of Virginia Press

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• The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Construction, Metallic

  John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.36

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• The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

  John Ruskin

  Design, Weight, Majesty

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• Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Ornaments, Railroads

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• The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

  John Ruskin

  War, History, Humanity

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• Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

  John Ruskin

  Ambition, Slavery, Whips

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• Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Science, Men

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.36

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• Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, Degrees, Sin

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.421

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• Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

  John Ruskin

  Honesty, Policy

  'Time and Tide' (1867) letter 8

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• If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Father, Home

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.132, University of Virginia Press

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• The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

  John Ruskin

  Expression, Play, Mind

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.244, John Ruskin

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• If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Stones, Draws

  John Ruskin (1859). “The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners”, p.46

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• Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.

  John Ruskin

  Sound, Endless, Soulless

  1882 OfWagner's DieMeistersinger. Letter to Mrs Burne-Jones, 30 Jun.

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• Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

  John Ruskin

  Should Have, Duty, Known

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• When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

  John Ruskin

  Sweet, Destiny, Wind

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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