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• The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most
  Serviceable to Others

  John Ruskin

  Men, Training

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

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• He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Needs, Want

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

  John Ruskin

  Doors, Window

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• That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Numbers, Noble

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

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• Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

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  Poetry, Saws, Speak

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• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Architecture, Painter

  'Lectures on Architecture and Painting' (1853) 61, addenda

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• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

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  Art, Children, Book

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

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• It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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  Art, Perfection, Saying Nothing

  John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.352

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• Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Reader, Skip

  "A Joy for Ever". Book by John Ruskin, note 6, 1857.

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• Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

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  Reality, Light, Shining

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.172

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• Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

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  Imperfection, Essentials, Perfection And Imperfection

  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.14

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• To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Knowledge And Power, Sight

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

  John Ruskin

  Thinking, Evil, People

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1859). “The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion”, p.141

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• Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

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  Heart, Dedication, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.41

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• Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Stupid, Three

  John Ruskin, David Carrier, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes (1997). “England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste”, p.31, Psychology Press

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• To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

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  Writing, Thinking, Use

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works: The laws of Fésole. A joy forever. Our fathers have told us. Inaugural address. Modern painters,v.1”

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• Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

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  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)

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• God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

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  Father, Giving, Wish

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.132

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• Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.

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  Life, Beautiful, Race

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 6-9 of leaf beauty. of cloud beauty. of ideas of relation”, p.4

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• Order and system are nobler things than power.

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  Order

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.40

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• You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

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  Understanding

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• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

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  Art, Truth, Firsts

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.

  John Ruskin

  Fall, Eye, Men

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• The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Literature, Vulgar

  John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.798, Library of Alexandria

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• No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

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  Real, Heart, Mean

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

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