187 ordspråk av John Ruskin
John Ruskin
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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