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Truly Quotes by John Ruskin
- We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name.…
- No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
- An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
- It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and…
- It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry…
- Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every…
- The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his…
- I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
- It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
- No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in…
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- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
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- The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. — Josephine Baker
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them.… — Christian Bale
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. — Roger Bannister
- I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved. — Javier Bardem