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Great Quotes by John Ruskin
- There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the…
- He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
- All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
- It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
- If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after…
- Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source…
- We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name.…
- I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
- The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the…
- 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…
- An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
- Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
- Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
- In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are…
- The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its…
- The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we…
- Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
- To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting…
- There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and…
- God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after…
- 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…
- I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
- Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of…
- A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
- 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…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong