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Upon Quotes by John Ruskin
- 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,…
- 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…
- Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling.
- It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time…
- 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…
- Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
- Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
- 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…
- If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,…
- It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is…
- Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
- It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I…
- 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…
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- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood