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| John Ruskin Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doing is the great thing. For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it. | Action |
| 2 | To cultivate sympathy you must be among living beings and thinking about them; to cultivate admiration, among beautiful things and looking at them. | Admiration |
| 3 | Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure. | Architecture |
| 4 | The architecture of a nation is great only when it is as universal and established as its language, and when provincial differences are nothing more than so many dialects. | Architecture |
| 5 | To my early knowledge of the Bible I owe the best part of my taste in literature, and the most precious, and on the whole, the one essential part of my education. | Bible |
| 6 | 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. | Brevity |
| 7 | Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. | Help |
| 8 | He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. | Imagination |
| 9 | 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. | Influence |
| 10 | The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us. | Justice |
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