John Ruskin Quotes About Love
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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.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
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No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
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No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
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To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.
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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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The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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