
“The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.”
The Jester’s Sermon.
Book I, Chapter 8
'time will tell'; 'I know he will / I know him well'
Finnegans Wake (1939)
“The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.”
The Jester’s Sermon.
“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
As quoted by John Greenleaf Whittier in his poem "Abraham Davenport" first published in The Atlantic Monthly (May 1866); later published in The Tent on the Beach, and Other Poems (1867).
Context: This well may be The Day of Judgment which the world awaits; But be it so or not, I only know my present duty, and my Lord’s command to occupy till He come. So at the post where He hath set me in His providence, I choose, for one, to meet Him face to face, no faithless servant frightened from my task, but ready when the Lord of the harvest calls; and therefore, with all reverence, I would say, let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles.
“Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better”
Source: The Piper's Son
“5451. We never know the Worth of Water, till the Well is dry.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.”
Ch 10 The Property Is Carried Off
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
“No one knows what he can do till he tries.”
Maxim 786
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 32
Context: Our Faith is grounded in God’s word, and it belongeth to our Faith that we believe that God’s word shall be saved in all things; and one point of our Faith is that many creatures shall be condemned: as angels that fell out of Heaven for pride, which be now fiends; and man in earth that dieth out of the Faith of Holy Church: that is to say, they that be heathen men; and also man that hath received christendom and liveth unchristian life and so dieth out of charity: all these shall be condemned to hell without end, as Holy Church teacheth me to believe. And all this standing, methought it was impossible that all manner of things should be well, as our Lord shewed in the same time.
And as to this I had no other answer in Shewing of our Lord God but this: That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well. Thus I was taught, by the grace of God, that I should steadfastly hold me in the Faith as I had aforehand understood, therewith that I should firmly believe that all things shall be well, as our Lord shewed in the same time.
For this is the Great Deed that our Lord shall do, in which Deed He shall save His word and He shall make all well that is not well. How it shall be done there is no creature beneath Christ that knoweth it, nor shall know it till it is done; according to the understanding that I took of our Lord’s meaning in this time.