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• You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Winning, Evil

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Two Paths”, p.160, John Ruskin

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• What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

  John Ruskin

  Quality, Ends

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• Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Trade, Live By

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• I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Ornaments, Done

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Life" sec. 24 (1849)

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• The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

  John Ruskin

  Relationship, Mean, Humility

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• There is no wealth but life.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Wisdom, Wealth

  'Unto this Last' (1862) essay 4, 77

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• "Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

  John Ruskin

  Lasts, Taste, Firsts

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• You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Eye, Soul

  John Ruskin (1906). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

  John Ruskin

  Confused, Mean, Understanding

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.1

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• All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Thinking, Essentials

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Ethics of the Dust”, p.116, John Ruskin

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• You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Medicine, Advice

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• Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

  John Ruskin

  Blue, Color, Delight

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.414

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• The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Strong, Anger

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• So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Character, Society

  "Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870".

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• Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
  Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
  Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
  Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Sweet, Hands

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Sight, Drawing

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

  John Ruskin

  Average, Numbers, People

  John Ruskin, Kenneth Clark (1991). “Selected writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

  John Ruskin

  Song, Firsts, Lips

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm”, p.56

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• All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Darkness, Gazing

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.101, University of Virginia Press

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• A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Hate, Passion

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• If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

  John Ruskin

  Trying, Needs, Impossible

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.53, John Ruskin

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• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

  John Ruskin

  Sex, Equality, Giving

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

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• What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe,
  and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and
  balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the
  science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It
  means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something
  nice to eat.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Nice, Food

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• The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Children, Likes And Dislikes

  John Ruskin (1903). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain”

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• Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

  John Ruskin

  Spiritual, Animal, Men

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.98, University of Virginia Press

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