John Ruskin

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. ↗

— John Ruskin

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. ↗

— John Ruskin

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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ↗

— John Ruskin

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