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• Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Light, Shadow

  John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.743, Library of Alexandria

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• He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

  John Ruskin

  Idolatry, Offers, Second Place

  John Ruskin (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.76

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• No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Sight, Stronger

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• Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

  John Ruskin

  Architecture, Adaptation, Form

  John Ruskin (1874). “Val D'Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories”, p.105

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• There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

  John Ruskin

  Ambition, Men, Two

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.343

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• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  John Ruskin

  Giving Up, Men, Titles

  1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

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