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Thinking Quotes by John Ruskin
- When we build, let us think that we build forever.
- He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
- 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…
- Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
- Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling.
- I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
- There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
- In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end…
- All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they…
- The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.
- Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults…
- What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared…
- 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…
- To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught…
- 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…
- What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
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