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Quotes from John Ruskin

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
~ John Ruskin
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
~ John Ruskin
I know well that happiness is in little things.
~ John Ruskin
There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.
~ John Ruskin
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
Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.
~ John Ruskin
No day is without its innocent hope.
~ John Ruskin
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
~ John Ruskin
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
~ John Ruskin
Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
~ John Ruskin
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.
~ John Ruskin
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
~ John Ruskin
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
~ John Ruskin
Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.
~ John Ruskin
Order and system are nobler things than power.
~ John Ruskin
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
~ John Ruskin
The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
~ John Ruskin
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.
~ John Ruskin
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
~ John Ruskin
The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.
~ John Ruskin
Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.
~ John Ruskin
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
~ John Ruskin
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
~ John Ruskin
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
~ John Ruskin