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Men Quotes by John Ruskin
- When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a…
- In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels,…
- Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable…
- Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to…
- To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to…
- When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of 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…
- Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long…
- We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread…
- All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
- Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there…
- How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the…
- 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.…
- ... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
- 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…
- The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
- 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…
- An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
- It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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