Tag: John Ruskin
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John Ruskin
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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.
John Ruskin
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
John Ruskin
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin
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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John Ruskin
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin