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Letter "J" » John Ruskin Quotes
«Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality»
«I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility»
«It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.»
«Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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best of them, hesitation, plod, plodding, plods, unbeliever, unbelievers
«Whether for life or death, do your own work well.»
«In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.»
«Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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arteries, artery, concentrated, crowds, fiery, hotter, Iron Gate, pulses, sea green, The central, throbbing, traverse, traversed, traversing, vitality
«One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.»
«The best thing in life aren't things.»
«It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.»
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