Tag: John Ruskin

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

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Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.

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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

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Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I’ll tell you what you are.

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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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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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This is the true nature of home – it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears

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