182 Quotations by John Ruskin
- 141. The last act crowns the play.

- 142. The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is ...

- 143. The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

- 144. The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, an ...

- 145. The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been be ...

- 146. The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.

- 147. The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

- 148. The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

- 149. The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth th ...

- 150. The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worth ...

- 151. The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

- 152. There is hardly anything
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- 153. There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals

- 154. There is no wealth but life.

- 155. There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, an ...

- 156. There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little ...

- 157. They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

- 158. They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

- 159. This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but ...

- 160. To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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