“The scene was more beautiful far to the eye
Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.”
Paul Moon James (1780–1854) British poet and banker
The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.”
Book VII: Pompilia, line 357.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
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K. A. Bedford (1963) Australian writer
Source: Paradox Resolution (2012), Chapter 8 (p. 61)
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
An Humble Attempt To Promote Explicit Agreement And Visible Union Of God’s People In Extraordinary Prayer For The Revival Of Religion And The Advancement Of Christ’s Kingdom On Earth from Edwards, Jonathan, The works of Jonathan Edwards (Vol. 2, p. 278). Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, 1974.
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
Context: The way which the superior man pursues, reaches wide and far, and yet is secret. Common men and women, however ignorant, may intermeddle with the knowledge of it; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage does not know. Common men and women, however much below the ordinary standard of character, can carry it into practice; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage is not able to carry into practice. Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, Interview with the Reuters War College (April 2017)
“Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand!”
Thomas Hardy book The Mayor of Casterbridge
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 41
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Comparing Richard Nixon to Alben Barkley during the 1952 presidential race, as quoted in Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait (1959) by Earl Mazo, Chapter 7
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
Context: It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. But I was exactly the same when I was still a student. We study and work, don't waste much time, and think we may rightly call ourselves industrious — but we are scarcely conscious of all we could do, all that we might make of our freedom. Then we suddenly receive a call from the hierarchy, we are needed, are given a teaching assignment, a mission, a post, and from then on move up to a higher one, and unexpectedly find ourselves caught in a network of duties that tightens the more we try to move inside it. All the tasks are in themselves small, but each one has to be carried out at its proper hour, and the day has far more tasks than hours. That is well; one would not want it to be different. But if we ever think, between classroom, archives, secretariat, consulting room, meetings, and official journeys — if we ever think of the freedom we possessed and have lost, the freedom for self-chosen tasks, for unlimited, far-flung studies, we may well feel the greatest yearning for those days, and imagine that if we ever had such freedom again we would fully enjoy its pleasures and potentialities.
