Quotes from John Ruskin — Alice Meynell
1847–1922 England
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[I]t is doubtful whether we may name any weak thing as typically spiritual.
John Ruskin (1900)
[T]here is nothing so exacting, so difficult, so various, as the consistency of a complete theory, nothing so overwhelming to a slothful student.
John Ruskin (1900)
Surely there is but one assumption […] wherewith nearly all thinkers […] have done their work—that is, the confession of the moral law: that there is a good, and that pure cruelty, mere hatred, and ingratitude, for example, are contrary thereto.
John Ruskin (1900)