Tag: John Ruskin
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John Ruskin
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John Ruskin
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
John Ruskin
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
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