Poet John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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.
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.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
There is no wealth but life.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

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