John Ruskin

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. ↗

— John Ruskin

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. ↗

— John Ruskin

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Civilization is the making of civil persons. ↗

— John Ruskin

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