“Behold the life at ease; it drifts,
The sharpened life commands its course.”
Hard Weather, l. 71 (1888).
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“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”
“The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 9.
“In this life we never behold the true state of our interior”
On the Last Day
Context: In this life we never behold the true state of our interior: our attention is engaged by the few serious sentiments with which we are occasionally animated; and the judgment which we form of ourselves is generally influenced by the last impressions which are made upon our minds.
“The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.”
“But what most showed the vanity of life
Was to behold the nations all on fire.”
Canto I, Stanza 55.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)
Quoted often without citation http://www.tagorefoundationinternational.com http://rupkatha.com/V2/n4/11Tagorephilosohy.pdf
Compare this verse verse written by Ellen Sturgis Hooper:
::"I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty."
Disputed
Statement in Downing Street on being invited to form a new government, 28 November 1990.
David Butler and Gareth Butler, "Twentieth Century British Political Facts", p. 296
1990s, 1990
Source: The Analects of Confucius: