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Whole Quotes by John Ruskin
- 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…
- When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
- 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…
- [For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into…
- 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…
- All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
- Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the…
- There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment…
- 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…
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