God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal… — 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
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
God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work… — 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
Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a… — 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 Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
