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Workmen Quotes by John Ruskin
- No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
- 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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- Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins
- When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence.… — Jean de la Bruyere
- A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
- Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman. — John Joseph Bernet
- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear… — Plato
- The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most… — Thomas Carlyle
- Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to… — Mencius
- It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume