Book III, 65 https://books.google.com/books?id=rPwLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=%22rescue+merit+from+oblivion%22+tacitus&source=bl&ots=uZvo03YXoQ&sig=WCpqNyg6Qyg-5xCJP4iiibym6pc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjln4Xl9YbVAhWMHD4KHbHBCc8Q6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=%22rescue%20merit%20from%20oblivion%22%20tacitus&f=false <br class="br">Annals (117)
“The best definition of love in the world is not worth one kiss from the girl you love.”
Machado de Assis book The Mirror (short story)
A melhor definição do amor não vale um beijo de moça namorada.
"O Espelho", from Papéis avulses (1882); William L. Grossman and Helen Caldwell (trans.) The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966) p. 60.
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
Source: Bartleby the Scrivener
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, Chapter I, Other chapters
Variant: A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
James Legge (1815–1897) missionary in China
Bk. 14, Ch. 3 (p. 193)
Translations, The Confucian Analects
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
Statement at the funeral of Aristotle Onassis, as quoted in Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis : A Life (2000) by Donald Spoto.
Context: Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.
“And love … love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 97–106. <br class="br">Context: Softly sweet, in Lydian measures,<br>Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.<br>War, he sung, is toil and trouble;<br>Honor but an empty bubble;<br>Never ending, still beginning,<br>Fighting still, and still destroying.<br>If all the world be worth thy winning.<br>Think, oh think it worth enjoying:<br>Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee,<br>Take the good the gods provide thee.
“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Elias Lyman Magoon (1810–1886) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 469.
