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“It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.”

Quote by John Ruskin

Book:Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.

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Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.

This book presents a collection of extracts and essays that showcase John Ruskin's profound insights into morality and religion, reflecting his extensive work as a writer and social critic. more

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John Ruskin was an influential British art critic, writer, and social critic. Known for his profound insights into art, architecture, and social issues, he had a significant impact on the aesthetics and culture of the Victorian era. more

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“If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.”

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Book:On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].

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Book:Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

Source: Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

“Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.”

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Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.”

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Book:The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

“Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.”

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Book:The Crown of Wild Olive

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“It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.”

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Book:The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin

Source: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin

“I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!”

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“How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.”

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Book:The Letters of Noel Coward

Source: The Letters of Noel Coward