There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
More Quotes from John Ruskin:
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.John Ruskin
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.
John Ruskin
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things not merely industrious, but to love industry not merely learned, but to love knowledge not merely pure, but to love purity not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
John Ruskin
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
John Ruskin
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
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