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John Ruskin
English
Writer
Born:
Feb 8
,
1819
Died:
Jan 20
,
1900
Education
Great
Man
Men
Work
You
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Good
Nature
Rain
Sunshine
Weather
Wind
Different Kinds
Bad
Kinds
Only
Delicious
Bad Weather
Braces
Exhilarating
Up
Snow
Refreshing
Different
Us
Really
Thing
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John Ruskin
You
Darkness
Light
Walk
Come
While
Lest
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin
Man
People
World
Consider
Worse
Some
Lawful
Only
Prey
Price
Cheaper
Make
Sell
Anything
Cannot
Little
Who
Hardly
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Work
Love
Together
Masterpiece
Expect
Work Together
Skill
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin
Natural
Beginning
Mountains
Scenery
End
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Good
Weather
Different Kinds
Bad
Kinds
Only
Bad Weather
Different
Thing
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
Strength
Patience
Beauty
Than
Endurance
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.
John Ruskin
Great
Relationship
Man
First
Understanding
Doubt
Humility
Hesitation
Say
Great Man
He
Merely
Powers
Opinion
Test
His
Truly
Mean
Speaking
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
Love
Minds
Those
Thoughtful
Purest
Colour
Most
Which
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin
Inspirational
Life
You
Beginning
Every
Setting
Setting Sun
Sun
Dawn
Close
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
Reward
Become
Highest
Person
Get
Toil
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
Man
Wrapped
Pretty
Small
He
Himself
Makes
Up
Package
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
Architecture
First
Goodness
Duty
Pleasing
Kinds
Practical
Well
Buildings
Doing
Graceful
Then
Require
Two
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin
First
Duty
Every
State
See
Born
Shall
Fed
Attains
Well
Till
Educated
Years
Discretion
Child
Clothed
Therein
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
Me
You
Tell
Like
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin
Education
Control
Complain
Our
Longer
Devoted
Mobs
Itself
Modern
Impudence
Modern Education
Then
Teaching
A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin
Book
Worth
Reading
Worth Reading
Buying
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
Me
You
Tell
Morality
Only
Like
Taste
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John Ruskin
Nature
Live
Our
Cities
Architect
Study
Hills
Him
Understands
Dome
Send
Little
Should
Painter
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
Heart
Manners
Deformity
Kind
Well
Real
Person
Want
Plain
Modest
Bred
Means
Who
Ever
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin
Feelings
Our
Characterize
Would
Generally
Fallacy
Effect
Impressions
Same
Pathetic
Which
Produce
Us
Things
External
Violent
External Things
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin
Truth
Only
Never
Concealment
Vulgar
Vulgarity
However
Affectation
May
Cannot
Commonplace
Unimportant
Painful
Whole
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin
Civil
Civilization
Making
Persons
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin
Best
Book
People
Long
Before
Would
Give
Price
Look
Most
How
Large
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin
Occupation
Labor
Either
Lending
Taxation
Land
Fortunes
Large
Founded
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