"Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity, its appeal is what is immortal in us, is as distinct, as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential."
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John Ruskin in: Charles Walton Sanders Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Fifth Reader, Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, 1866, p. 48.
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