182 Quotations by John Ruskin
- 21. Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
- 22. Education... which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them more serviceable to others.
- 23. Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
- 24. Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things a ...
- 25. Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
- 26. Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
- 27. Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
- 28. Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
- 29. God alone can finish.
- 30. Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of ...
- 31. Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book ...
- 32. How difficult it is to be wisely charitable -- to do good without multiplying the source of evil. To ...
- 33. How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Lib ...
- 34. How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot ...
- 35. How long would most people look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot ...
- 36. I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt ...
- 37. I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
- 38. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb a ...
- 39. I know well that happiness is in little things.
- 40. I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out ...
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