Quotes: John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
+3Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
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John Ruskin
+1An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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John Ruskin
+1Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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John Ruskin
0A book worth reading is worth buying.
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John Ruskin
0A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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John Ruskin
0A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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John Ruskin
0A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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John Ruskin
0All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
Source: Sesame and lilies -
John Ruskin
0An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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John Ruskin
0An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
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John Ruskin
0Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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John Ruskin
0Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
Source: The seven lamps of architecture -
John Ruskin
0Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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John Ruskin
0Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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John Ruskin
0Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Berger
