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From Quotes by John Ruskin
- 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.
- 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…
- Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
- The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn,…
- You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
- 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…
- No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he…
- Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into…
- In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon…
- To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led…
- This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror,…
- The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we…
- Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far…
- Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.
- 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.
- Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
- It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the…
- Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared…
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