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Things Quotes by John Ruskin
- All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be…
- 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…
- 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…
- On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have…
- Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
- Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
- 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 best thing in life aren't things.
- Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery…
- Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
- Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because…
- Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it…
- 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…
- Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting…
- Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our…
- It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under…
- 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 virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
- Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
- Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
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