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John Ruskin has 415 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our…
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child…
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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When we build, let us think that we build forever.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet,…
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing,…
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
— Euripides
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.
— David Foster Wallace
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If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees…
— John Ruskin
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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must…
— Mstislav Rostropovich
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No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
— Bryan Procter
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Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.
— Bela Karolyi
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