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Quotes by John Ruskin
- I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
- In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- 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.
- It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
- It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
- 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.
- It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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