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An English art critic and social thinker, also remembered as a poet and artist. John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English art critic and social thinker, also remembered as a poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Here are some famous quotes by John Ruskin.
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God alone can finish.
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There is no wealth but life.
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Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
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If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
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I know well that happiness is in little things.
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When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
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No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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To see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.
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Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
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When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
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Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.
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God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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Music when healthy is the teacher of perfect order and when depraved the teacher of perfect disorder.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
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Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.
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Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
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When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.
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The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
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The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.
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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
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No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
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Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.
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When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.
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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air unwholesome food improperly severe labor or erring habits of life.