Life let us cherish, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Since life is but a dream,
Why toil to no avail?”
Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
"A Homily on Ideals in Life, Uttered in Springtime on Rising From a Drunken Slumber" (c. 750), in A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: 121 Classical Poems (1976), p. 115
Variant translation by Arthur Waley: "Life in the World is but a big dream; I will not spoil it by any labour or care."
Elizabeth Bath (1776–1844) English poet
"An Effusion", from Poems, on Various Occasions (1806)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson book Ulysses
Source: Ulysses (1842), l. 46-53
Context: Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me —
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 7 : Spiritual Progress
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.
“Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies?”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
This passage contains some phrases King later used in "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1967) which has a section below.
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is fairly obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says "love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies-or else? The chain reaction of evil-Hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Donald Grant Mitchell book Reveries of a Bachelor
Reveries of a Bachelor, or a Book of the Heart (1850), p. 78.
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) English poet
Parting http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/parting.html, st. 1.
Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer
Source: Go Ask Alice
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
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