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First Quotes by John Ruskin
- 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…
- One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would…
- "Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any…
- Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young…
- Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
- I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is…
- The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.
- Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every…
- All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they…
- Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
- The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his…
- I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
- We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
- The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual…
- The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
- All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
- The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains…
- I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great…
- That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle