Quote#Time
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you,…
Quote byJohn Ruskin · 1819–1900
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Joy for Ever (1857), Lecture II: The Accumulation and Distribution of Art, section 74.
English (original)
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
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