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• The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

  John Ruskin

  Way, Firsts, Easy

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

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• Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

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  Heart, Generosity, Mind

  John Ruskin (1865). “Sesame and Lilies, etc”, p.105

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• Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

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  God, Men, Color

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• A book worth reading is worth buying.

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  Book, Reading, Buying

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• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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  Love, Men, Forever

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

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  Cute, Girl, Flower

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

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  Success, Years, Long

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• No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

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  Peace, Fate, Winning

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• I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

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  Greatness, Men, Gold

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• But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

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  Kings, Fighting, Army

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.307, Courier Corporation

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• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

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• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Talking, Piano

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• The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

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  People, Enjoy, Objects

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.275, University of Virginia Press

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• There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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  Flower, Literature

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.367, University of Virginia Press

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• You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required--and content that He should indeed require no more of you--than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.

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  Peace, Perfect, Justice

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

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  Mother, Pain, Heart

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• The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

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  Inspirational, Power, Imagination

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.

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  Moving, Men, Fire

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.237

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• Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

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  Work, Self, Toil

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• The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

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  Art, Children, Real

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• Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

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  Dust, Cities, Giving

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Art, Book, Writing

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

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• Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

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  Morning, Spring, Fall

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.338

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• All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Soul, Literature

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.312, John Ruskin

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• Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

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  Passion, Sacrifice, Men

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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