John Ruskin Short Quotes

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The serpent is a honeysuckle with a head put on.

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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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Architecture... the adaptation of form to resist force.

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

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Rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing.
On painting Nature

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

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The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

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One of the principal charms of mountain scenery is its solitude.

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Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.

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All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

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Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

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Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

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