"The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it."

Virtue, Beauty, Morality, Intellect, Expression

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"The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it."

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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

Virtue, Happiness, Suffering, Example

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

John Milton, English Poet

Virtue, Light, Moon, Sea

"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Virtue, Innocence, Love, Pursuit

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Virtue, Patience, Morality, Courage, Character

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Virtue, Chastity, Wrong

"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Virtue, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Wisdom

"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Virtue, Self, Vices, Word

"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

Virtue, Modesty

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Virtue, Goodness

"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Virtue, Trade

Explore more quotes by John Ruskin

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

Man

"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."

Help

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

Experience

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

Beauty

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

Labor

"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."

Man

"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."

Emotional

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."

Life

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

Education

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

Architecture