Author Topic: ~ John Ruskin Quotes ~  (Read 2676 times)

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« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2015, 10:55:02 AM »
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

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« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2015, 10:55:31 AM »
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2015, 10:56:02 AM »
Music when healthy is the teacher of perfect order and when depraved the teacher of perfect disorder.

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« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2015, 10:56:37 AM »
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

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« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2015, 10:57:12 AM »
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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« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2015, 10:58:07 AM »
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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« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2015, 10:58:39 AM »
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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« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2015, 10:59:14 AM »
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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« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2015, 10:59:47 AM »
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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« Reply #24 on: January 15, 2015, 11:27:09 AM »
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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« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2015, 11:27:52 AM »
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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« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2015, 11:28:32 AM »
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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« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2015, 11:29:00 AM »
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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« Reply #28 on: January 15, 2015, 11:29:37 AM »
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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« Reply #29 on: January 15, 2015, 11:30:07 AM »
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.