A MORE SCRUPULOUS WATCH by John Ruskin

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 10, 1904

A MORE SCRUPULOUS WATCH.

By John Ruskin

IT seems to me that the shortest way to check the darker forms of deceit is to set watch most scrupulously against those which have mingled, unregarded and unchastised, with the current of our life. Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and another as slight, and another as unintended. Cast them all aside; they may be light and accidental, but they are an ugly soot from the smoke of the pit, for all that; and it is better that our heart should be swept clean of them, without overcare as to which is largest or blackest.—John Ruskin.