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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

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If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a
landscape painter, it is love of read more

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a
landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves
you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and
human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter,
it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that
move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours,
and the fullness thereof.

by John Ruskin Found in: Painting Quotes,
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what read more

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future

by John Ruskin Found in: Obligation Quotes,
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

by John Ruskin Found in: Mountains Quotes,
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, read more

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

by John Ruskin Found in: Weather Quotes,
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