John Ruskin: Citáty v angličtine (page 5)

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

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Volume IV, part V, chapter III, section 22 (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)

“God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the place where He wishes us to be employed; and that employment is truly "our Father's business." He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them, if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves, or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault. And we may always be sure, whatever we are doing, that we cannot be pleasing Him, if we are not happy ourselves.”

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Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 123.

“It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact, out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.”

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Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)

“For when we are interested in the beauty of a thing, the oftener we can see it the better; but when we are interested only by the story of a thing, we get tired of hearing the same tale told over and over again, and stopping always at the same point — we want a new story presently, a newer and better one — and the picture of the day, and novel of the day, become as ephemeral as the coiffure or the bonnet of the day. Now this spirit is wholly adverse to the existence of any lovely art. If you mean to throw it aside to-morrow, you can never have it to-day.”

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On the Condition of Modern Art, lecture (1867).

“I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.”

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John Ruskin kniha The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Zdroj: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter III: The Lamp of Power, section 13.

“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”

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The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture III: War, section 114 (1866).

“For this dead Venice once taught us to be merchants, sailors and gentlemen; and this dying England taught the Americans all they have of speech, or thought, hitherto. What thoughts they have not learned from England are foolish thoughts; what words they have not learned from England, unseemly words; the vile among them not being able even to be humorous parrots, but only obscene mocking birds.”

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John Ruskin kniha Fors Clavigera

Fors Clavigera,, letter xlii, ( 1 June 1874 https://archive.org/stream/forsclavigera02ruskiala#page/204/mode/2up; quoted by William Archer in America To-Day).
Fors Clavigera (1871-1878 and 1880-1884)

“Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.”

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Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving, with Appendix, lecture I: Definition of the Art of Engraving, section 34 (1872).

“He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth — they, and they only.”

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Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 563.

“And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and 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.”

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John Ruskin kniha Unto This Last

Essay III: "Qui Judicatis Terram," section 54.
Unto This Last (1860)

“The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.”

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Sesame and Lilies, lecture I: Sesame. Of King's Treasuries, section 3 (1864-1865)

“How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.”

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John Ruskin kniha The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Zdroj: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter VII: The Lamp of Obedience, section 1.

“Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and denned; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.”

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Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 134.

“Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.”

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Zdroj: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter IV: The Lamp of Beauty, section 19.

“In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.”

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Mornings in Florence, part III, section 49 (1875).

“An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.”

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Fors Clavigera, letter xxxiv (October 1873).
Fors Clavigera (1871-1878 and 1880-1884)

“What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.”

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Lecture V, section 82.
The Eagle's Nest (1872)

“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”

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Lecture III
Lectures on Art (1870)

“Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.”

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Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 122.

“And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.”

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Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)