"The child who desires education will be bettered……" — John Ruskin
"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
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404 Quotes by John Ruskin
John Ruskin has 404 quotes on this site.
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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 Bettered Quotes
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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay,…
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As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.
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Already I've bettered my result from Snapper. It's a long year; plenty of the top guys will hopefully have one…
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We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then…
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of…
— Ezra Pound
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Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also…
— Aldo Leopold
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I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and…
— Andre Ward
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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted…
— John Milton
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Sometimes the person that excites you most isn't necessarily going to make the best husband or wife. It takes a…
— Omar Suleiman
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And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure…
— Kate Bush
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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