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John Ruskin

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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.


— John Ruskin


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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.


— John Ruskin


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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.


— John Ruskin


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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.


— John Ruskin


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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.


— John Ruskin


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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.


— John Ruskin


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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.


— John Ruskin


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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.


— John Ruskin


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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.


— John Ruskin


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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.


— John Ruskin


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Did you know about John Ruskin?

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Ruskin lectured widely in the 1860s giving the Rede lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1867 for example. John James had sent the piece to Turner who did not wish it to be publiJohn Ruskind.

Today his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism sustainability and craft. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture myth to ornithology literature to education and botany to political economy.

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