182 Quotations by John Ruskin
- 1. A book worth reading is worth buying.
- 2. A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
- 3. A life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading va ...
- 4. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
- 5. A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
- 6. A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
- 7. Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its e ...
- 8. An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study ...
- 9. An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
- 10. An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
- 11. Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
- 12. As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth no ...
- 13. Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
- 14. Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
- 15. Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever ...
- 16. Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more lo ...
- 17. Civilization is the making of civil persons.
- 18. Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other ...
- 19. Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try ...
- 20. Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing ...
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