John Ruskin ( 10 of 37 )
He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will read more
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what read more
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.
A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.
October's foliage yellows with his cold.
October's foliage yellows with his cold.
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a
landscape painter, it is love of read more
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a
landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves
you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and
human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter,
it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that
move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours,
and the fullness thereof.
