John Ruskin
English art critic
Lived from: 1819 - 1900
Category: Media Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 8 february 1819 Died: 20 january 1900
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
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Labour may be shortly divided into positive and negative labour: positive, that which produces life; negative, that which produces death.
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
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Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
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Life without industr is guilt, and industry without art is brute lity.
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Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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