Act I, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 334.
from (I) & (II) 'Quenn Mary's Complaint', Poems 1786, kindle ebook ASIN B00849523Q
“I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.”
“The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”
Source: Analects of Confucius
“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
Source: Paradise Lost
Book Five : "Mundus Vult Decepi", Ch. XXIX : The Grumbler's Progress
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Context: These young people were getting a calm and temperate, but a positive, gratification out of being virtuous. There must, then, lurk somewhere deep hidden in humanity a certain trend to perverse delight in thus denying and curbing its own human appetites. And since the comparatively intelligent and unregenerate persons were all profiting by their fellows' increased forbearance, altogether everybody was reaping benefit.
This damnable new generation was, because of its insane aspiring, happier than its fathers had been under the reign of candor and common sense.
St. 1
"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)
"Devonshire Street W.1" line 1, from A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954).
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