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John Ruskin Quotes

«Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: lilies, peacocks
«Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.»
«He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great»
«Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: close set, dawn, setting
«A book worth reading is worth buying.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: buying
«Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future»
«The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: color, purest, thoughtful
«He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Truth | Keywords: persuasion
«It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.»
«The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.»

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