“Hell is truth seen too late — duty neglected in its season.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 225.
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“Hell is truth known too late.”
Source: The Upper Room (1888), Ch. XIX: "Thoughts for Young Men"
“He’d seen too often how little of the universe is designed for man to neglect any safety measure.”
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Context: As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity. The free-labor system conforms to the divine law of equality, which is written in the hearts and consciences of man, and therefore is always and everywhere beneficent.
The slave system is one of constant danger, distrust, suspicion, and watchfulness. It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defence, to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies which otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement. The free-labor system educates all alike, and by opening all the fields of industrial employment and all the departments of authority, to the unchecked and equal rivalry of all classes of men, at once secures universal contentment, and brings into the highest possible activity all the physical, moral, and social energies of the whole state.
Book XVIII, sec. 44.
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“The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.”
Book One, Part IV “The Cloud”, Chapter 5 (p. 208)
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“He who would to the purpose do a good action, must not neglect his season.”
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“The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.”
La recherche de la vérité est la plus noble des occupations, et sa publication un devoir.
Pt. 4, ch. 2
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 603.
“Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.”
Act II, sc. iv, air 22
The Beggar's Opera (1728)