John Ruskin Quotes About Literature
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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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 an statement you wish to make.
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
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My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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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.
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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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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