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• Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Men, Lines

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.380

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• Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Progress, Decline

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.120

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• You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Helping Others, People

  John Ruskin (2015). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nature

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.64

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• There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Law, Genius

  John Ruskin (1873). “The fall”, p.97

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• The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Cities, Steel

  John Ruskin (2012). “Selections From the Works of John Ruskin”, p.215, tredition

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• What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Poetry, Suggestions

  'Modern Painters' (1888) vol. 3

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• It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

  John Ruskin

  Discipline, May, Want

  John Ruskin (2015). “A Joy Forever”, p.113, John Ruskin

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• Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

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  Passion, Men, Expression

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin: Miscellanies”

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• When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

  John Ruskin

  Littles, Pay, Too Much

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

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• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

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  Art, Work, Perfect

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.183, University of Virginia Press

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• I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

  John Ruskin

  Teaching, Drawing, May

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

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• There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Eye, Animal, Light

  John Ruskin (1855). “Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists and the French Exhibition”

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• Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

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  Queens, Husband, Son

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• Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Healthy, Mind

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.214, University of Virginia Press

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• People cannot live by lending money to one another.

  John Ruskin

  Money, People, Lending

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• It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.228, John Ruskin

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• Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

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  Eye, Color, Different

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

  John Ruskin

  Determination, Luxury, Water

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.107

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• Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

  John Ruskin

  Recognition, Foresight

  John Ruskin (1871). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Index”, p.74

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• The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Book, Reading

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

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• He who is not actively kind is cruel!

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Animal Rights, Kind

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• He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Ideas, Numbers

  Modern Painters vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1843)

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• It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Men, Sky

  "Modern Painters".

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• Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

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  Perfect, May, Energy

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.166

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