"Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness,……" — John Ruskin

"Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty."

— John Ruskin

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404 Quotes by John Ruskin

John Ruskin has 404 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was…
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
When we build, let us think that we build forever.
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by…
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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