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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Love
Work
Skill
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.
John Ruskin
Poor
Property
Right
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin
Life
Work
Death
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin
Architecture
There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
Life
Wealth
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin
Experience
Force
Intellect
Passion
Skill
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John Ruskin
Art
Change
Thought
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin
Society
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin
Being
Fish
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John Ruskin
Men
Age
Purpose
Knight
Lying
Preaching
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
John Ruskin
Heart
Manners
Want
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John Ruskin
Nothing
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
John Ruskin
Nothing
Pride
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin
Crime
Prevention
Punishment
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
Reward