Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
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John Ruskin
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Sesame and Lilies
The Elements of Drawing
The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
The King of the Golden River
The Nature Of Gothic
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The Stones of Venice
The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition. 39 vols.
Unto This Last
Unto This Last and Other Writings
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To be taught to read__hat is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak__ut what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think__ay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.
Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
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.
When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.