God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place. John Ruskin More Quotes by John Ruskin More Quotes From John Ruskin 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. John Ruskin clumsinessdarknessevil To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death. John Ruskin qualityliteraturedeath Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. John Ruskin lawlifedeath Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. John Ruskin lightpowerevil Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. John Ruskin great-persongratitudeinspirational The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time. John Ruskin angerstrongtime The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. John Ruskin governmenteducationmean To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy. John Ruskin happinesslovemen There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him. John Ruskin creationmeanchrist Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. John Ruskin individualitysoulmay Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it. John Ruskin fit Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. John Ruskin honestylightnight There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too. John Ruskin perseverancepatiencetalking When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. John Ruskin effortgrowsmen One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty. John Ruskin takenmothernurse Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities. John Ruskin encouragementteachingscience The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity. John Ruskin naturegodscience Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. John Ruskin lawscienceknowledge Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor. John Ruskin quietsciencepeople The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. John Ruskin imaginationpowerinspirational
