Quotes by John Ruskin

John Ruskin

… A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

Hands

Men

Tangible

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… Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote – the Daguerreotype. (1845)

Daguerreotypes

Men

Poison

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… no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Justice

Men

Political

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… the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

Forever

Peculiar

Race

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“Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is “What do you like?” Tell me what you like, I’ll tell you what you are.”

Firsts

Lasts

Taste

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[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes – this, nature bade not, – this, God blesses not, – this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

Long

Men

Political

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Book

Buying

Reading

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A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Forests

Sublime

Tree

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A gentleman’s first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply “fineness of nature.

Firsts

Gentleman

Mind

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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Done

Effort

Greatness

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