"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
― John Ruskin
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Work
More From John Ruskin
- "Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."
- "No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
- "You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion."
More In Work
- "When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."― Maxim Gorky
- "People are not perfect… very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they’ve had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that."― Patricia Hewitt
- "To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."― Robert Frost