John Ruskin Quotes

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• When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a…
• In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
• Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily…
• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
• When we build, let us think that we build forever.
• In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels,…
• There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
• Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
• Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end…
• Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
• Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
• All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
• Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
• The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of…
• Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable…
• All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be…
• He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
• Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
• The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.
• Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

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