Tag: John Ruskin
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The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin
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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.
John Ruskin
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John Ruskin
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
John Ruskin