Tag: John Ruskin
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Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John Ruskin
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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin
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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.
John Ruskin
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Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
John Ruskin
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
John Ruskin
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.
John Ruskin
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin