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One 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…
- One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would…
- 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…
- One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
- People cannot live by lending money to one another.
- 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…
- There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
- Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
- Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this…
- No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he…
- 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…
- A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make…
- All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul…
- I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
- Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
- No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of…
- One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.
- The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
- I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
- There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of…
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