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" ...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work."
- John Ruskin, More quotation on Work. |
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"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness."
- John Ruskin. |
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"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do to much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
- John Ruskin. |
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."
- John Ruskin, Writing. |
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"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."
- John Ruskin. |
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
- John Ruskin. |
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
- John Ruskin. |
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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."
- John Ruskin. |
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"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it."
- John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850, More quotation on Work. |
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"Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave."
- John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849. |