John Ruskin

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? ↗

— John Ruskin

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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. ↗

— John Ruskin

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When we build, let us think that we build for ever. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Whether for life or death, do your own work well. ↗

— 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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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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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ↗

— John Ruskin

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. ↗

— John Ruskin

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