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Good Quotes by John Ruskin
- In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
- All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
- The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
- In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge…
- 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…
- They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
- However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight…
- 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…
- All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul…
- Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as…
- No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
- Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
- It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity…
- Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as…
- Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
- Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds…
- Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
- The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
- Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults…
- There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
- No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
- No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in…
- The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
- No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
- Noone can do me any good by loving me, I have more love than I need or could do any good with, but people do…
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