“That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.”
John Ruskin
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“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion–all in one.”
John Ruskin
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“You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
John Ruskin
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“Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.”
John Ruskin
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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
John Ruskin
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“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.”
John Ruskin
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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.”
John Ruskin
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“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
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“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
John Ruskin
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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
John Ruskin
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“There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.”
John Ruskin
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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.”
John Ruskin
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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.”
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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“Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.”
John Ruskin
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“He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.”
John Ruskin
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“He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.”
John Ruskin
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“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art … consists.”
John Ruskin
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“Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.”
John Ruskin
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“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”
John Ruskin
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