“Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.”
To Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972).
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Virginia Woolf book The Waves
Bernard, section IX
Source: The Waves (1931)
Context: Our friends, how seldom visited, how little known — it is true; and yet, when I meet an unknown person, and try to break off, here at this table, what I call “my life”, it is not one life that I look back upon; I am not one person; I am many people; I do not altogether know who I am — Jinny, Susan, Neville, Rhoda, or Louis; or how to distinguish my life from theirs.
“Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.”
Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer
Source: A Book of Simple Living
Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 94
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
The earliest appearance of this proverb yet located is in Eliza Cook's Journal Vol. 11, (1854), p. 128, and the earliest attribution to Addison yet found is in Public Ledger Almanac (1887), p. 20.
Disputed
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Era/XD8DAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=addison%20%22hope%20your%20guardian%20genius%22&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=addison%20%22hope%20your%20guardian%20genius%22 Many Thoughts of Many Minds
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Into the little room of mortal life.”
Sri Aurobindo book Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Savitri (1918-1950), Book Three : The Book of the Divine Mother
Context: I saw the Omnipotent's flaming pioneers
Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life
Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth;
Forerunners of a divine multitude,
Out of the paths of the morning star they came
Into the little room of mortal life.
I saw them cross the twilight of an age,
The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn,
The great creators with wide brows of calm,
The massive barrier-breakers of the world
And wrestlers with destiny in her lists of will,
The labourers in the quarries of the gods,
The messengers of the Incommunicable,
The architects of immortality.
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Il rispetto che i veri amici hanno nei tuoi confronti non permetterà mai loro di essere dietro o davanti al tuo percorso di vita, ma sempre al tuo fianco.
Source: prevale.net
“There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.”
Robert Greene book The Art of Seduction
Source: The Art of Seduction