Life is a magic vase filled to the brim so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it - drop in malice and it overflows hate drop in charity and it overflows lo.
More Quotes from John Ruskin:
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.John Ruskin
Consider what heavy responsibility lies upon you in your youth, to determine, among realities, by what you will be delighted, and, among imaginations, by whose you will be led.
John Ruskin
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.
John Ruskin
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
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Charity Quotes, Life QuotesBased on Keywords: brim, dip, overflows, vase
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas de Chamfort
I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.
Rickey Henderson
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
Nusrat F. A. Khan