"Give me some mud off a city crossing,……" — John Ruskin
"Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust."
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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
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