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• He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

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  Life, Trust, Interest

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.319

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• The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

  John Ruskin

  Political, Slavery, Politics

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War”, p.113

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• In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

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  Appreciation, Strong, Looks

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.885, John Ruskin

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• Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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  Workout, Simplicity, Consumerism

  The Eagle's Nest ch. 5 (1872)

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• The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

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  Flower, Good Woman, Path

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

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  Education, School, Diversity

  Unto This Last Essay 2 (1862)

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• Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

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  Thinking, People

  1873 Modern Painters, vol.3, pt.4, ch.16.

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• Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

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  Travel, Journey, Different

  John Ruskin (1857). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 4. Of many things”

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• One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

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  Change, Long, Impossible

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• The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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  Lying, Essence, Political

  John Ruskin (1910*). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

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  Passion, Skills, Experience

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• It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

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  Mother, Passion, Law

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• Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

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  Long, Political, Wish

  Unto This Last Essay 3 (1862)

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• A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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  Money, Kindness, Helping Others

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.344

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• There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

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  Jesus, Thinking, Expectations

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• There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

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  Strong, Class, Wicked

  John Ruskin (19??). “Ruskin's Works”

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• We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

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  Heart, Purpose, World

  John Ruskin (1899*). “John Ruskin's Works”

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• I know well that happiness is in little things.

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  Littles, Little Things, Wells

  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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• To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

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  Expression, Imperfection, Vitality

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.184, University of Virginia Press

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• He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.

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  Kings, Heart, Men

  John Ruskin (1873). “Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures”, p.67

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• Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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  Beauty, Patience, Perseverance

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.88, Parlor Press LLC

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• Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

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  Morning, Short Life, Dawn

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

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• There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

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  Country, Mean, Men

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

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• No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. 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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  Happiness, Expression, Law

  John Ruskin (1900). “The Stones of Venice (Complete)”, p.763, Library of Alexandria

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• The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

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  Christian, Letting Go, Men

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