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Schriftsteller, Professor für Kunst in Oxford, Kunstkritiker, Philosoph (England, 1819 - 1900).

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John Ruskin wäre heute 205 Jahre, 2 Monate, 11 Tage oder 74.946 Tage alt.

Geboren am 08.02.1819 in London
Gestorben am 20.01.1900 in Brantwood
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

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• The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

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• The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

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• The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions.

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• There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

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• There is no wealth but life.

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• 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.

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• There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell . . . You enterprised a railroad . . . you blasted its rocks away . . . And now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.

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• There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

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• They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

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• Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, "Does he work?"

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• To see a thing clearly is at once poetry, prophecy and religion.

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• We call ourselves a rich nation, and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries!

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• What is poetry? . . . The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

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• What is rightly done stays with us, to support another right beyond, or higher up; whatever is wrongly done vanishes; and by the blank, betrays what we would have built above.

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• When we build . . . let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think . . . that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

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• When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

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• Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

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• Which of us . . . is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest-and for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

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• Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

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