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John Ruskin

(1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)

Books and Reading
A book worth reading is worth buying.
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Greatness
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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Life and Living
A life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
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Kindness
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
Rating: 2.83 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Cost
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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Trains
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.
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Architecture
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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Inheritance
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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Imagination
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
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Books and Reading
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Books and Reading
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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Cheerfulness
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor or erring habits of life.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Children
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Civilization
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
Rating: 3.67 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Curses and Cursing
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to a statement you wish to make.
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Faults
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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Enjoyment
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
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Education
Education... which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them more serviceable to others.
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Perseverance
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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Aid and Assistance
Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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Possessions
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Rating: 4.75 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Status
Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
Rating: 4.20 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Freedom
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
Rating: 3.67 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Children
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Rating: 3.86 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Control
God alone can finish.
Rating: 3.50 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Compromise
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
Rating: 3.29 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Nations
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
Rating: 3.86 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Charity
How difficult it is to be wisely charitable -- to do good without multiplying the source of evil. To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Liberty
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.
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Books and Reading
How long would most people look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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Arts and Artists
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.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Happiness
I know well that happiness is in little things.
Rating: 4.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Cities and City Life
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.
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Self-Actualization
I will strive to raise my own body and soul daily into all the higher powers of duty and happiness, not in rivalship or contention with others but for the help and delight and honor of others and for the joy and peace of my own life.
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Success
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
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House and Home
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.
Rating: 3.40 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Imagination
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.
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Pride
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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Children
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
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Technology
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
Rating: 2.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Painters and Painting
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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Submission
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.
Rating: 3.73 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Life and Living
It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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Imagination
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.
Rating: 3.67 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Writing and Writers
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
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Goals
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
Rating: 3.40 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Simplicity
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
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Restraint
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Rating: 3.00 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Heritage
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.
Rating: 3.26 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

Money
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
Rating: 4.57 Rate: 1 2 3 4 5

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