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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
-- John Ruskin
#Love #Family #Children
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“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do”
-- John Ruskin
#Motivational #Believe #Acceptance
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“There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.”
-- John Ruskin
#Flower #Garden #Ornaments
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“When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.”
-- John Ruskin
#Motivational #Witty #Attitude
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“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
-- John Ruskin
#Money #Kindness #Helping Others
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“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
-- John Ruskin
#Love #Inspirational #Motivational
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“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
-- John Ruskin
#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
-- John Ruskin
#Inspirational #Motivational #Inspiring
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“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.”
-- John Ruskin
#Science #Painting #Infinite
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“The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.”
-- John Ruskin
#Flower #Good Woman #Path
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“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
-- John Ruskin
#Trust #Children #Truth
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“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.”
-- John Ruskin
#Strong #Class #Wicked
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“Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.”
-- John Ruskin
#Imperfection #Essentials
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“I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.”
-- John Ruskin
#Beautiful #Hurt #Perfect
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“There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.”
-- John Ruskin
#Flower #Literature
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“Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.”
-- John Ruskin
#Men #Anticipation #True Happiness
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“To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.”
-- John Ruskin
#Book #Knowledge And Power #Sight
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“It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.”
-- John Ruskin
#Littles #Deals
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“The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.”
-- John Ruskin
#Letting Go #Christian #Men
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“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
-- John Ruskin
#Beautiful #Eye #Hands
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“A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.”
-- John Ruskin
#Beautiful #Hate #Passion
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“Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.”
-- John Ruskin
#Change #Time #Book
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“A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.”
-- John Ruskin
#Greatness #Effort #Done
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“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
-- John Ruskin
#Beautiful #Darkness #Gazing
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“Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.”
-- John Ruskin
#Long #Political #Wish
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“The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.”
-- John Ruskin
#Successful #Power #Effort
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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.”
-- John Ruskin
#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive
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“Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.”
-- John Ruskin
#Love #Men #Forever
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“No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.”
-- John Ruskin
#Love #Birthday #Lying
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“Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.”
-- John Ruskin
#Wind #Wings #White
