Tag: John Ruskin
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
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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?
John Ruskin
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John Ruskin
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
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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.
John Ruskin
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin
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There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin