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«Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.»
«Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
parcel, parcels, parcel out, travelling
«The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
calls, Christian church, Christian Churches, commonly, earn, every so often, heresy, ineffective, letting, preaching, root, salvation, schism, suffered, The Christian, work through
«The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.»
«There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.»
«You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
bronze, bronzed, chisel, chisels, chisel in, good shape, hammer
«Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.»
«The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthily used, will be a gift to his race forever»
«Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
anatomies, anatomy, Body of, convulsive, muscles, muscular, the Mountain
«Architecture is the work of nations»
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