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May Quotes by John Ruskin
- Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
- All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be…
- Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
- 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…
- We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared…
- 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…
- You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as…
- 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…
- 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…
- The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer…
- Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
- 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…
- Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health,…
- The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.
- Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
- I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
- You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle