Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart
Context: The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment.
Who doubts that this toughness is one of man's greatest needs? Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
“As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.”
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), Dhammapada, Ch. 1: The Twin Verses, verse 13 http://books.google.com/books?id=v8oKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22As+rain+breaks+through+an+ill-thatched+house+passion+will+break+through+an+unreflecting+mind%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage
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Gautama Buddha 121
philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563–-483 BCRelated quotes
“The break-through moments are unimaginable until they happen.”
Meaningoflife.tv interview, 2013
“The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side.”
“We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.”
Phone interview on The Majority Report, 2004-04-02
“I'll see you again,
Whenever spring breaks through again.”
"I'll See You Again," Bitter Sweet, Act 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=ICVHprNgia8C&q=%22I'll+see+you+again+whenever+spring+breaks+through+again%22&pg=PA229#v=onepage
Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, st. 1 (1934), st. 5
“Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.”
1860s, Cooper Union speech (1860)
Context: It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony, one with another. Let us Republicans do our part to have it so. Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Even though the southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can.
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
Romeo, Act II, scene ii.
Variant: What light through yonder window breaks?
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
Their Morals and Ours (1938)
Context: (On the American Civil War) "History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!"
No. 381 (17 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)