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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design. — John Ruskin

What would it be like to live one whole day as a Ruskin sentence, wandering like a creek with little comma bridges? — Mary Oliver

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. — John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a materpiece. — John Ruskin

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes ... when he has nothing better to do. — John Ruskin

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. — John Ruskin

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless. — John Ruskin

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. — John Ruskin

The majesty of nature depends upon the force of the human spirit. — John Ruskin

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor. — John Ruskin

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house. — John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin

Malcolm Muggeridge who said that the only real Englishmen left in the world were to be found in India. — Ruskin Bond

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in ... Ruskin's Elements. — Claude Monet

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child. — John Ruskin

There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking. — Ruskin Bond

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. — John Ruskin

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. — John Ruskin

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. — John Ruskin

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing ... — John Ruskin

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it. — John Ruskin

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. — John Ruskin

You can only possess beauty through understanding it. — John Ruskin

Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short stories, in fact. My — Ruskin Bond

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. — John Ruskin

Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die. — Ruskin Bond

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

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. — John Ruskin

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out. — John Ruskin

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. — John Ruskin

The best work never was and never will be done for money. — John Ruskin

Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. — John Ruskin

Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song. — Ruskin Bond

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. — John Ruskin

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest. — Ruskin Bond

kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies. A — Ruskin Bond

A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. — Ruskin Bond

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? — John Ruskin

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. — John Ruskin

Hitler's signature is ugly, as you would expect. — Ruskin Bond

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. — John Ruskin

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one. — John Ruskin

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight. — John Ruskin

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. — John Ruskin

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. — John Ruskin

Men may sometimes be rather similar, but no two women are ever alike. — Ruskin Bond

On the open road we are all brothers. — Ruskin Bond

She did not know it then, that some of the moving force in our life are meant to touch us briefly and go there way. — Ruskin Bond

The tree made it's first move, the first overture of friendship. It allowed a leaf to fall. — Ruskin Bond

You may sell your work, but not your soul. — John Ruskin

It isn't time that's passing by, it is you and I. It — Ruskin Bond

Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens. — Ruskin Bond

It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many. — Ruskin Bond

One sure way to lose the world and everything in it, is to try grasping it. — Ruskin Bond

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. — John Ruskin

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? — John Ruskin

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work. — John Ruskin

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. — John Ruskin

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. — John Ruskin

Architecture is the work of nations — John Ruskin

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

For everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth. — Ruskin Bond

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. — John Ruskin

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength. — John Ruskin

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it. — John Ruskin

There is no wealth but life. — John Ruskin

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. — John Ruskin

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. — John Ruskin

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge — John Ruskin

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. — John Ruskin

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along. — John Ruskin

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. — John Ruskin

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. — John Ruskin

Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder, — Ruskin Bond

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin

The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You — Ruskin Bond

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. — John Ruskin

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits. — John Ruskin

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light. — John Ruskin

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. — John Ruskin

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them. — John Ruskin

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. — Ruskin Bond

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. — John Ruskin

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances. — John Ruskin

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. — John Ruskin

Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them. — Ruskin Bond

Trees make you feel younger. And the older the tree, the younger you feel. Whenever — Ruskin Bond

He who is not actively kind is cruel! — John Ruskin

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way. — John Ruskin

Whether for life or death, do your own work well. — John Ruskin

Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world. — John Ruskin

The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones. — John Ruskin

She walked home through the darkening glade, singing of the stars; and the trees stood still and listened to her, and the mountains were glad. — Ruskin Bond

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. — John Ruskin

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. — John Ruskin