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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

By the work one knows the workmen.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

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.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

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.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

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