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

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About John Ruskin

Portrait of John Ruskin

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.

More quotations from John Ruskin

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.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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.

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.

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.

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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

—Walt Whitman

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I refused to lose my heart to someone who was incapable of giving me his.

—Helen Hardt in Craving

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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

—Dale Carnegie

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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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History

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