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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
By John Ruskin
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
By John Ruskin
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
By John Ruskin
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
By John Ruskin
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
By John Ruskin
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
By John Ruskin
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
By John Ruskin
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
By John Ruskin
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
By John Ruskin
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
By John Ruskin
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
By John Ruskin
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
By John Ruskin
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
By John Ruskin