3 December 2020 John Ruskin Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin 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.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin 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.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin 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.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
