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Nor 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,…
- I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life,…
- 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…
- Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into…
- High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in…
- The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep…
- An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.
- 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.
- 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…
- It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is…
- When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will…
- When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be…
- Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is,… — Henry Steele Commager
- A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
- Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. — Francis Bacon