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Them Quotes by John Ruskin
- 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…
- There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the…
- 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…
- The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious,…
- Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their…
- 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,…
- 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 were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with…
- 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…
- At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we…
- Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
- In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon…
- To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led…
- 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…
- In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are…
- Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
- It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or…
- Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.
- There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle