187 ordspråk av John Ruskin
John Ruskin
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.
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People cannot live by lending money to one another.
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Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
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Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.
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Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is pure and bright in youth; for what is true and tried in age; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, - and marvelous in the powers that cannot die
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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