When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but… — 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
The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose… — 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
[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
Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be… — 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
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.” — 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
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