The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
More Quotes from John Ruskin:
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.John Ruskin
Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
John Ruskin
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.
John Ruskin
However good you may be you have faults however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.
John Ruskin
It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born
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
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