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Letter "J" » John Ruskin Quotes
«An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.»
«How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?»
«The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.»
«Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.»
«The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.»
«Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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Evil
| Keywords:
barbarity, clumsiness, desolating, oppress
«Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.»
«You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.»
«Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.»
«I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.»
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