Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 478.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 306.
1860s, Cooper Union speech (1860)
Context: Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Context: Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 103.
“We never taste a perfect joy;
Our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.”
Jamais nous ne goûtons de parfaite allégresse:
Nos plus heureux succès sont mêlés de tristesse.
Don Diègue, act III, scene v.
Le Cid (1636)
Source: The Zen Teaching of "Homeless" Kodo (Kyoto: Kyoto Soto Zen Center, 1990), p. 72
“Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 143
As translated by Alan R. Clarke (1996).
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
