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Famous John Ruskin Quotes
“Architecture is the work of nations”
“Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.”
“Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.”
“Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.”
“The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others”
“No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.”
“Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge”
“What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.”
“No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.”
“Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.”
“Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.”
“An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.”