John Sullivan Dwight Quotes

“Rest is not quitting
The busy career,
Rest is the fitting
Of self to one's sphere.”

John Sullivan Dwight

Stanza 4.
Rest

“Is not true leisure
One with true toil?”

John Sullivan Dwight

Stanza 1. Compare: "Absence of occupation is not rest", William Cowper, Retirement, line 623.
Rest

“T is the brook's motion,
Clear without strife,
Fleeing to ocean
After its life.”

John Sullivan Dwight

Stanza 5.
Rest

“Work, and thou wilt bless the day
Ere the toil be done;
They that work not, can not pray,
Can not feel the sun.
God is living, working still,
All things work and move;
Work, or lose the power to will,
Lose the power to love.”

John Sullivan Dwight

Working.

“T is loving and serving
The Highest and Best!
'T is onwards! unswerving,
And that is true rest.”

John Sullivan Dwight

Stanza 7.
Rest