Clergyman's

“Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.”
– John Ruskin

“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
– John Ruskin

“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
– John Ruskin

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
– John Ruskin

“There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.”
– John Ruskin

“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

“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
– John Ruskin

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

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

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
– John Ruskin

“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
– John Ruskin

“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.”
– John Ruskin

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

“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
– John Ruskin

“It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.”
– John Ruskin

“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
– John Ruskin

“Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.”
– John Ruskin

“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”
– John Ruskin

“There is no wealth but life.”
– John Ruskin

“Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.”
– John Ruskin

“No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.”
– John Ruskin

“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
– John Ruskin

“Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.”
– John Ruskin

“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
– John Ruskin

“A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.”
– John Ruskin

“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
– John Ruskin

“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
– John Ruskin

“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”
– John Ruskin

“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”
– John Ruskin

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