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


John Ruskin

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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something ...
JOHN RUSKIN
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
JOHN RUSKIN
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...
JOHN RUSKIN
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other ...
JOHN RUSKIN
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book o...
JOHN RUSKIN
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed...
JOHN RUSKIN
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really ...
JOHN RUSKIN
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or tr...
JOHN RUSKIN
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
JOHN RUSKIN
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of ...
JOHN RUSKIN
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt ...
JOHN RUSKIN
There is no wealth but life.
JOHN RUSKIN
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try...
JOHN RUSKIN
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
JOHN RUSKIN
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes.
JOHN RUSKIN
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, an...
JOHN RUSKIN
This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but ...
JOHN RUSKIN
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall...
JOHN RUSKIN
A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.
JOHN RUSKIN
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty...
JOHN RUSKIN
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain wi...
JOHN RUSKIN
The best thing in life aren't things.
JOHN RUSKIN
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of ...
JOHN RUSKIN
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
JOHN RUSKIN
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so...
JOHN RUSKIN
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...
JOHN RUSKIN
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little ...
JOHN RUSKIN
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, w...
JOHN RUSKIN
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c...
JOHN RUSKIN
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
JOHN RUSKIN