182 Quotations by John Ruskin
- 161. To use books rightly is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power f ...
- 162. To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, ...
- 163. We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of int ...
- 164. We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is al ...
- 165. We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
- 166. What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, ...
- 167. What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our librarie ...
- 168. What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
- 169. What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant "well-being," and degrade and na ...
- 170. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c ...
- 171. When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
- 172. When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am h ...
- 173. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- 174. When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals o ...
- 175. When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
- 176. Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
- 177. You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
- 178. You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better ki ...
- 179. You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with e ...
- 180. You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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