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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.

Quotes from John Ruskin

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

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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 . . . a sure sense that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

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Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

There is a working class — strong and happy — among both rich and poor. There is an idle class — weak, wicked, and miserable — among both rich and poor.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

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