It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the… — 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
[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
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
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they… — 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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