John Ruskin Quotes about Time

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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

Change, Time, Book

Sesames and Lilies "Of Kings' Treasuries" (1865)

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

John Ruskin

Time, Strong, Anger

You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

John Ruskin

Time, Flames, Teeth

John Ruskin (2006). “A Joy for Ever, And Its Price in the Market”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

John Ruskin

Time, Thinking, Feelings

"Selected writings: Edited and introduced by Peter Quennell".

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

John Ruskin

Time, Failure, Long

John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.139