But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things not merely industrious, but to love industry not merely learned, but to love knowledge not merely pure, but to love purity not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens There is no putting by that crown queens you must always be queens to your lovers queens to your husbands and sons queens of higher mystery to the world beyond.... But alas you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The highest reward for a mans toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a 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. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Quality is never an accident it is always the result of an intelligent effort. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, incredibly merciful. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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. - John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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