182 Quotations by John Ruskin
- 41. I will strive to raise my own body and soul daily into all the higher powers of duty and happiness, ...
- 42. If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blo ...
- 43. If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare t ...
- 44. Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.
- 45. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, ...
- 46. In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- 47. In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them ...
- 48. In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, wal ...
- 49. In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use ...
- 50. In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, bu ...
- 51. In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for ...
- 52. It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it ...
- 53. It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and ...
- 54. It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that i ...
- 55. It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewe ...
- 56. It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their w ...
- 57. It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill ...
- 58. It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
- 59. It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great o ...
- 60. It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
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