"There is material enough in a single flower……" — John Ruskin
"There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals."
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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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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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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral…
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A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.
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Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle…
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up,…
— Francois Mauriac
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To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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