"Your labor only may be sold, your soul…" — John Ruskin
"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."
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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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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work…
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to…
— Warren Beatty
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
— Max Beerbohm
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the…
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the…
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I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to…
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How…
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