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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.


John Ruskin

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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
JOHN RUSKIN The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
JOHN RUSKIN The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
JOHN RUSKIN The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes.
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JOHN RUSKIN Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
JOHN RUSKIN The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes.
JOHN RUSKIN There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, an...
JOHN RUSKIN This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but ...
JOHN RUSKIN Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall...
JOHN RUSKIN A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.
JOHN RUSKIN We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty...
JOHN RUSKIN The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain wi...
JOHN RUSKIN The best thing in life aren't things.
JOHN RUSKIN A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
JOHN RUSKIN Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of ...
JOHN RUSKIN Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
JOHN RUSKIN Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so...
JOHN RUSKIN In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...
JOHN RUSKIN There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little ...
JOHN RUSKIN You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, w...
JOHN RUSKIN When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c...
JOHN RUSKIN