John Ruskin
English art critic
Lived from: 1819 - 1900
Category: Media Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 8 february 1819 Died: 20 january 1900
Quotes 21 till 40 of 133.
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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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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?
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
Sesame and Lilies (1865)― John Ruskin -
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
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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.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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