Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay? John Ruskin More Quotes by John Ruskin More Quotes From John Ruskin It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest. John Ruskin failure time long At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them. John Ruskin judgment trying people Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. John Ruskin christian education animal Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. John Ruskin hate life hands When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet. John Ruskin destiny sweet wind The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. John Ruskin slavery politics political Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house. John Ruskin design house character In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields. John Ruskin independent house sky It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail. John Ruskin broken men life You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. John Ruskin gambling neighbor nature How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible..... There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment. John Ruskin stars sea men ... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice. John Ruskin political justice men Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces. John Ruskin politics political doe Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted. John Ruskin money evil war There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope. John Ruskin kaleidoscope historical law No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. John Ruskin design noble architecture You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight. John Ruskin care fun world If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. John Ruskin buying reading book See! This our fathers did for us. John Ruskin our-father father It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching. John Ruskin teaching healing children
