
Christian Ethicks (1675); cited from Bertram Dobell (ed.) The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1903) p. lvii.
Source: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 10 (p. 300)
Christian Ethicks (1675); cited from Bertram Dobell (ed.) The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1903) p. lvii.
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p87.
“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”
Source: Joan of Arc
“The Brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”
Source: How to Fall in Love
Act III, scene 1, line 151.
Count Basil (1798)
“A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.”
Unsourced
“Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself.”
Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 130
“Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.”
Stanza 124
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)