I know well that happiness is in little things.
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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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When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
There is no wealth but life.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air unwholesome food improperly severe labor or erring habits of life.
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
God alone can finish.
One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.