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John Ruskin

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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.


— John Ruskin


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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.


— John Ruskin


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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.


— John Ruskin


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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.


— John Ruskin


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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.


— John Ruskin


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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.


— John Ruskin


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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.


— John Ruskin


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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.


— 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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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.


— John Ruskin


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Did you know about John Ruskin?

) (eds. Lectures in the 1860s
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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