"There are no such things as Flowers there……" — John Ruskin
"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."
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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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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
— Jane Austen
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,…
— Diane Ackerman
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True love stories never have endings.
— Richard Bach
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have…
— Honore de Balzac
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked…
— Honore de Balzac
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
— Honore de Balzac
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
— Franklin P. Adams
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!…
— Edward Abbey
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I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
— Drew Barrymore
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
— Drew Barrymore
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