You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required--and content that He… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life… — 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
I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of… — 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
