"Architecture is the art which so disposes and……" — John Ruskin
"Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure."
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404 Quotes by John Ruskin
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was…
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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When we build, let us think that we build forever.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by…
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
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More Adorns Quotes
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
— Honore de Balzac
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three…
— Therese of Lisieux
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person,…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear…
— Henry David Thoreau
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty…
— James Hutton
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Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
— Ibn Majah
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FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
— Robert South
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.
— Anuj
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