John Ruskin Quotes

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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin

Money, Great, Kindness

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.
John Ruskin

Nature, Good, Rain

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

Great, Mean, Doubt

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin

Great, Humility, Test

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

Cannot, Worse, Consider

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
John Ruskin

Words, Deception, Lying

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin

Family, Love, Great

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin

Effort, Result, Quality

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

Art, Positive, Truth

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
John Ruskin

Find, Shall, Needed

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin

Work, Great, Art

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin

Art, Heart, Together

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin

Patience, Beauty, Strength

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

Person, Become, Highest

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

Simple, Sacrifice, Place

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin

Time, Good, Strong

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin

Love, Thoughtful, Minds

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John Ruskin

Peace, Evil, May

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin

Great, Mistakes, Pride

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin

Music, Teacher, Perfect

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin

Life, Sun, Beginning

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

Great, Art, Book

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin

Education, Government, Food

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

Book, Worth, Reading

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 8, 1819

Died: January 20, 1900

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