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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 Quotes

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

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future - John Ruskin Quotes

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future

Duty

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 Quotes

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.

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad. - John Ruskin Quotes

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up - John Ruskin Quotes

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born - John Ruskin Quotes

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight - John Ruskin Quotes

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls. - John Ruskin Quotes

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. - John Ruskin Quotes

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. - John Ruskin Quotes

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

English Writer Mistakes

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

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

English Writer Poetry

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art - John Ruskin Quotes

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art - John Ruskin Quotes

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. - John Ruskin Quotes

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

Authority Churches

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength. - John Ruskin Quotes

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

Action Mountains

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin Quotes

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Ability English Writer

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end. - John Ruskin Quotes

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge. - John Ruskin Quotes

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty. - John Ruskin Quotes

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. - John Ruskin Quotes

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Doubt English Writer

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. - John Ruskin Quotes

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

English Writer Experience

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. - John Ruskin Quotes

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. - John Ruskin Quotes

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil - John Ruskin Quotes

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. - John Ruskin Quotes

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

English Writer Men

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. - John Ruskin Quotes

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

English Writer Men

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. - John Ruskin Quotes

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

English Writer Evils

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. - John Ruskin Quotes

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. - John Ruskin Quotes

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Practice Vanity

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. - John Ruskin Quotes

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy. - John Ruskin Quotes

To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish - John Ruskin Quotes

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish

Fish

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. - John Ruskin Quotes

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

English Writer Labor

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does. - John Ruskin Quotes

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

Girls

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. - John Ruskin Quotes

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art Arts And Artists

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them. - John Ruskin Quotes

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. - John Ruskin Quotes

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold. - John Ruskin Quotes

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

Hundreds can talk to one who can think; thousands can think to one who can see - John Ruskin Quotes

Hundreds can talk to one who can think; thousands can think to one who can see

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. - John Ruskin Quotes

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

English Writer Kind

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 Quotes

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.

Arts And Artists Ask

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change. - John Ruskin Quotes

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Cities And City Life Life

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. - John Ruskin Quotes

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. - John Ruskin Quotes

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. - John Ruskin Quotes

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. - John Ruskin Quotes

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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 Quotes

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.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. - John Ruskin Quotes

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. - John Ruskin Quotes

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Architecture is the work of nations - John Ruskin Quotes

Architecture is the work of nations

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