“242. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely — they are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.”
The Rubaiyat (1120)
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Of the Two Worlds so wisely — they are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth…" by Omar Khayyám?
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“Why should you,
Because the world is foolish, not be wise?”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Franklin in Act II, sc. iv; p. 109.
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Individualism and Socialism (1933)
Context: Prevailing customs and existing institutions are threatened by pioneers and prophets as well as by robbers and murderers, with the result that saints and sinners have often been thrust into adjoining cells. The crucifixion of Jesus between two thieves is the supreme illustration of a historic truth that nobility and depravity have often received the same punishment.
“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”
George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss
Source: The Mill on the Floss
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 45
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Há os que Deus mesmo explora, e são profetas e santos na vacuidade do mundo.
“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”
Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986) writer
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori (1696–1787) Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher…
Liguori, A. M. (1882). Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity: In What True Wisdom Consists. In N. Callan (Trans.), Sermons for All the Sundays in the Year (Eighth Edition, p. 43). Dublin; London: James Duffy & Sons.
“Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.”
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
"Written-In-Red" Stanza 2
Context: Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.
But the shrouded Living, whose hearts were numb,
have felt the beat of a wakening drum
Within them sounding — the Dead men’s tongue —
Calling: "Smite off the ancient rust!"
Have beheld "Resurrexit," the word of the Dead,
Written-in-red.