“Test every work of intellect or faith,
And everything that your own hands have wrought
And call those works extravagance of breath
That are not suited for such men as come
Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.”
III, st. 2
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/
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The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
Context: If God promise riches, the way thereto is poverty. Whom he loveth, him he chasteneth: whom he exalteth, he casteth, down: whom he saveth, he damneth first. He bringeth no man to heaven, except he send him to hell first. If he promise life, he slayeth first: when he buildeth, he casteth all down first. He is no patcher; he cannot build on another man’s foundation.
He will not work until all be past remedy, and brought unto such a case, that men may see, how that his hand, his power, his mercy, his goodness and truth, hath wrought altogether. He will let no man be partaker with him of his praise and glory. His works are wonderful, and contrary unto man’s works.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 314.
Source: 'Letter VII. to Lord John Russell' (30 January 1836), The Letters of Runnymede (1836), pp. 60-61
Book Three, Part I “Snake’s Road”, Chapter 3 (p. 333)
The Birthgrave (1975)
“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
Source: The Whitechapel Conspiracy
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 542.
1975 interview http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7073441.stm