
“If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!”
The Thief's Journal (1949)
Source: Hunted
“If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!”
The Thief's Journal (1949)
“Earth helped him with the cry of blood.”
Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Original: (ru) Человечество не останется вечно на земле, но в погоне за светом и пространством сначала робко проникнет за пределы атмосферы, а затем завоюет себе все околосолнечное пространство
Source: from Воздухоплавание в наше время // Современный мир. — 1912. — № 7. — С. 260. (and His epitaph)
Source: Mentioned in Beyond the Planet Earth, by K. Tsiolkovsky (1920), translated by K. Syers (1960), reviewed by M. G. Whillans, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 55 (1961), p. 144 http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/JRASC/0055//0000144.000.html
Smuts in a letter dated 8 January 1921, published in the New York Evening Post, 2 March 1921
“On Earth it was day in some places, night in others.”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 44
“That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, — to love Him, the spring of spirits.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 449.
Context: It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, — to love Him, the spring of spirits.
The World's Religions (1991)
Context: He [Jesus] could have been that [a healer and exorcist]--indeed, he could have been "the most extraordinary figure in … the stream of Jewish charismatic healers," as the same New Testament scholar goes on to say--without attracting more than local attention. What made him outlive his time and place was the way he used the Spirit that coursed though him not just to heal individuals but -- this was his aspiration -- to heal humanity, beginning with his own people.