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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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
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When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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There is no wealth but life.
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