Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share
Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it… — John Ruskin Copy Share
All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure;… — John Ruskin Copy Share
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just… — John Ruskin Copy Share
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