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Beautiful Quotes by John Ruskin
- A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants…
- I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life,…
- Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this…
- Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied…
- Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our…
- Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
- Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
- All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
- Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
- It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I…
- In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm…
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