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John Ruskin
February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900
Nationality: English
Category: Writer
Subcategory: English Writer

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

   

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

   

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

   

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

   

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

   

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

There is no wealth but life.

   

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

   

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

   

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

   

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

   

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

   

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

   

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

   

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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