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Thing Quotes by John Ruskin
- A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
- The best thing in life aren't things.
- If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as…
- I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is…
- Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing…
- Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as…
- I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing...
- Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
- Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds…
- A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
- There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
- Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
- When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the…
- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds…
- What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what…
- It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's…
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