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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DEDICATION CEREMONY FOR THE KAHLIL GIBRAN
CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
DATE:
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1991
TIME:
9:30 A.M.
LOCATION:
KAHLIL GIBRAN MEMORIAL GARDEN
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR COMMUNICATION
FROM:
SICHAN SIV
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR PUBLIC LIAISON
I. PURPOSE:
To participate in the Dedication Ceremony of the Kahlil
Gibran Memorial Garden.
II. BACKGROUND:
On October 19, 1984, the U.S. Congress passed a Joint
Resolution for the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation
to establish a memorial for the Lebanese-American poet and
artist on a U.S. National Park site.
You and Mrs. Bush serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Kahlil
Gibran Memorial Garden Dedication Committee Dedication
Committee.
Kahlil Gibran, born 100 years ago in Besharri, Lebanon
moved with his family at age 12 to the United States where
he lived the rest of his life. By his death at age 48, he
had produced, as both writer and an artist, a prodigious
body of work which stands today as an artistic legacy to
people of all nations. The writings of Kahlil Gibran are
among the world's most popular, with over eight million
copies of "The Profit" sold, and collections of his work
appearing in over 50 languages. He continues to be one of
the most quoted authors in the United States today.
The Kahlil Gibran Memorial is being offered as a gift to the
American people by the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation.
The foundation is an American non-profit organization whose
projects commemorate Kahlil Gibran and his messages of
tolerance and compassion.
THE WHITE HOUSE
III. PARTICIPANTS:
WASHINGTON
Col. Peter S. Tanous, U.S. Army (Ret. ) i Chairman
Dedication Committee
Adelene Abercia, Vice Chairman, Dedication Committee
William Baroody, Jr., Chairman and President,
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation's Board of Directors
Jamie Farr
Casey Kasem
Flip Wilson
IV. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
Please see Advance Office scenario.
V.
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Open Press.
REMARKS TO BE PROVIDED BY SPEECHWRITERS
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Foreward to the
new edition
GIBRAN KAHLIL GIBRAN
The history of literature reveals many writers who help initiate, develop or enrich a trend, or who
introduce major changes in the genre within which they are working. Literary trends occur,
usually, because literature has exhausted the possibilities of another established trend and is
ready for a change in a new direction. This is how modern Arabic Romanticism grew in the teeth
of neo-Classicism, without, however, subverting it; in fact, neo-Classicism reached its peak in
the twenties of this century, at a time when Romanticism was quickly developing toward its own
peak in the thirties.
Literary catalysts, however, are of a different order: they do not simply initiate a new
trend, but rather establish a radically new way of writing, often against heavy odds and beyond
all expectations. They are the creative writers who change the direction of the literature of their
times and of all times. There is always a kind of readiness, in the literature of their period, to
accept the kind of revolution they offer, for the radical change of tools which such catalytic
figures introduce cannot be imposed in a void. But for the change to succeed, literature has to
have a readiness for it, an appropriate malleability, a capacity to absorb the kind of major
transformation we are speaking of. This does not mean, nevertheless, that the radical conversion
which literary catalysts introduce has been in any way anticipated in the literature that was being
written by their contemporaries, that it was somehow "inevitable". In an age of openness to new
methods and concepts, literature can develop creatively enough to remedy the faults and
weaknesses that had afflicted it and weakened its tools, but further major adventures with the
tools of a particular genre, which often transform it radically, are not necessary to keep the line of
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development constantly advancing. To elucidate this further: neo-Classical rigidity, rhetoricism,
utilitarianism (for example, the poems of occasion neo-Classical poets so often wrote), balance
between form and content, and, above all, objective attitude, began, when they had become too
deeply entrenched in poetry, to require tempering by the fluidity, emotional appeal and subjective
elements of introspection, self-revelation, self-expression and deep involvement in the personal
and private life which Romanticism could provide. Romanticism thus appears to have been the
inevitable answer, on the artistic level, to the impasse which neo-Classicism had reached early in
the century. There were also social and psychological reasons behind it. Gibran himself was a
great pioneer of the Romantic movement in modern Arabic literature, giving it its early impetus
and hastening its birth from his remote outpost in America. With him were other Arab poets, in
America and in the Arab world, who participated in fostering the Romantic current and affirming
its artistic and social necessity. However, the introduction of the Romantic current is not, in
itself, what makes Gibran's contribution a catalytic event in the history of modern Arabic
literature.
What caused Gibran to tower over his contemporary Arab writers both at home and in the
Americas (where a steady Arab literary tradition had developed and matured) was the unrivalled
revolution he engineered in the language and style of poetry. The language and style of Arabic
poetry, and of literature in general, has been gradually changing with the years, but Gibran's
arrival on the scene, so early in the century, heralded a completely new order, a radical change of
gear. There can be no causative explanations for the kind of momentous transformation he
achieved in these two respects. If Romanticism itself was inevitable, this remarkable
transformation in diction and style was not, and would not have happened without the particular
genius of this unique prophet of solitude. Literature in an age as dynamic as Gibran's (the first
three decades of the twentieth century), when literary experimentation is brisk and artistic
influences are constantly at work, will absorb and develop new methods. But there may be two
lines of advance within such a development. First there is the predictable line that will show us
how literature, because of the particular weaknesses of the literary school dominant in a certain
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period, will need to embrace the antithetical qualities of another particular school, in order to
overcome these weaknesses; this point was explained above. Secondly, there is the unpredictable
event, the one that happens only because a particular genius emerges on the scene, possessing the
necessary flair, audacity, opportunity and literary knowledge to write in a diametrically new way,
new but healthy, and surprisingly capable of being apprehended and assimilated by many of his
contemporaries.
A pure Romantic gift, a soaring imagination, a lyrical impulse, a passion for freedom, a
magical spiritual appeal, all these combine to constitute Gibran's poetic make-up. Yet it was his
creative audacity, the way he managed to create a style unrelated to anything in the literature of his
times, to seek in language only the spirit and the essence, and to forge a completely new diction
thereby exploding possibilities hitherto unknown to his contemporaries in the Arab world which
combined to change the diction and the very direction of modern Arabic literature for his time and
for all subsequent times.
Gibran's style came to be known in the Arab world as the " Gibranian style". Strongly
influenced by the Bible, it was characterized by a striking use of interrogatives, vocatives and
æsthetic repetitions, and, with the undulating sweep of the broad Romantic rhythm he employed in
his prose poetry, he often produced a hypnotic effect on his readers. His rhythms are usually
heightened, but can also alternate between a slow and a quick pace, arriving at times in a kind of
magical roll and flurry. His vocabulary was inventive, his metaphors selective and new. He once
said about language: "The only means of reviving the language is in the heart of the poet, on his
lips and between his fingers;" and this he achieved completely by changing the linguistic basis of
Arabic poetry. By penetrating the rigid linguistic façade of Classicism, so deeply entrenched in
Arab poetic practice up to his time, he hauled diction into the modern age, accomplishing for poetry
what would otherwise have taken several generations to achieve. One of the main reasons why he
was able to experiment with so much freedom, why his creativity could remain pure and
unhampered, was the fact that he was writing in America, away from the sages of Arabic literature
at home those entrenched classicists who watched, hawk-like, over the sanctimoniousness of
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inherited literary methods, and strove to stifle any radical attempt to tamper with tradition. After
Gibran's experiment everything became possible in Arabic poetry, and all the adventures with
poetic diction, which came in such a flood in the sixties of this century and after, happened only
because Gibran had, early in the century, laid the foundation for a new departure from inherited
modes, in favor of an audacious spirit of experimentation. His deep æsthetic reverence was in no
way incompatible with his equally deep feelings of irreverence towards the staleness and rigidity of
entrenched linguistic clichés and outdated stylistic conventions.
Gibran's services to æsthetics and to literary technique were not his only achievements, for
his change of gear involved, equally, a new social vision, reflected first in his aspirations to a
social
healthy and progressive Arab society, then, when he shifted to writing completely in English, in
perspee
the universal human vision that encompassed all mankind. There were, in the field of modern
Arabic literature, going to be many thematic innovations; in fact, despite the predominance at
certain times in the century of particular themes (such as the themes of dissent and resistance which
became widespread in the fifties and intensified in the seventies), Arabic literature was to exhibit
great thematic variety as hundreds of robust new talents appeared on the scene. However, Gibran's
spiritual make-up -- a mixture of sage, prophet and rebel which is reflected in his writings in
both Arabic and English was to remain unique, a source of ever renewed inspiration to his readers.
It is this universal vision, so vividly expressed through an effective æsthetic medium, that has
sustained his writings throughout this century. I was hardly surprised when, upon my arrival in
the United States in the mid-seventies, I discovered Gibran's continued popularity in America. A
culture SO deeply involved with material acquisition and the pervasive pursuit of gain will per force
be drawn to the writings of this prophet of human Justice, Compassion and Love. He expressed a
steadfast belief in the possibility of solving human differences and conflicts through an all-
embracing Love; fusing social problems, philosophy and religion "in one grand design", his
pantheistic vision could see no tensions in society which Love could not solve. These thematic
ventures involved a new approach to Nature, a whole new departure for poetry and for literature
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generally, an awakening of the spirit, and an all-embracing pantheistic vision which Arabic
literature had not known since the days of the great mystics of medieval times.
A mover and a shaker, Gibran still lives on, even in an Arab literary field that is ever
renewed and enriched by a dazzling array of splendid new talents in all fields of literature.
Contemporary Arabic literature is perhaps one of the richest in the world today, but much of its
present achievement is indebted to the pioneering work of Gibran.
Had Gibran not appeared on the scene of modern Arabic literature, the story of this
literature would have to be told in a completely different way.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
(Grossman/Smith)
May 17, 1991
Draft One
RASUL
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS KHALIL GIBRAN DEDICATION
GIBRAN MEMORIAL GARDEN
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1991
Ladies and Gentlemen. It's an honor to dedicate this garden
to a man who has done so much for poetry, and through poetry, for
all of us.
\
Barbara and I were pleased to serve as honorary Co-
Chairmen of the dedication committee. And now that I see the
beauty of this place, I'm struck by that committee's dedication.
They, and those that contributed to this memorial saw in
Gibran the beauty he saw in humanity.
It's daunting to say a few words about a man whose words
said so much. So I'll be brief, remembering, as Gibran once
said, "in much of talking, thinking is half murdered." ((Some
have said that in much of my speech, talking is half murdered.)
This spot where we now stand holds a special place in my
heart. For eight years, I lived up the street with my family.
But this memorial renders this place more special still -- by
honoring a man who lifted candor with cadence, and lent song to
truth.
ensiched centiner way nb,
Gibran once wrote that "remembrance is a form of meeting."
So, in this garden, we meet that great man again. The graceful
ask
symmetry and slope of these grounds lead the eye in a sweep that
didne
is, indeed, poetry in motion. The Cedars of Lebanon that will
someday canopy the poet's memorial remind us of those which once
sheltered his birth. His words carved on these benches echo
those he has etched on our memory. And as the entrance
footbridge brings us into his garden, so his work "leads (us) to
the thresholds of (our) own mind. "
Perhaps his greatest bequest was the key by which we opened
9
(?)
our own imagination. His was not poetry for the passive, but for
the participant. Rather than drawing us along the path of his blan
thoughts, his work opened the gate to ours.
He wrote that the
wisest teacher reveals "that which already lies half asleep in
the dawning of your knowledge." His poetry sounded that reveille
with a song of beauty and truth.
When Gibran said that "work is love made visible," those
will
on
were not just words that he wrote, they were words that he lived.
Part poet, part philosopher -- he was the man who discovered 'the
tighter
apos,
secret of the sea in a drop of dew. I Poetry was the language in
which he explored his soul, and taught us about ours. And when
wall
he spoke of the realm of the spirit, his words pressed the veil
well
nothod
we cannot see, yet cannot see beyond. He drew us where we were
unused to climb, and showed us what he saw: the promise of a
kinder, gentler world.
As we survey today's world, we do indeed see progress
towards Gibran's vision, but we also see promise unfulfilled.
And we see the need to renew Gibran's message of tolerance and
compassion for a world too often at odds rather than at peace.
Perhaps nowhere is this more important than in the Middle East,
Gibran's homeland, where peace still wanders as the region's
prodigal son.
3
[That region gave us a symbol of peace in Gibran. It is
cruel irony that those lands now suffer the strife of hatred and
fear. I know you all share my hopes for Secretary Baker's
success in his peace seeking mission Our Administration's
efforts are premised by those words Bill just quoted: "We are all
children of the same supreme being. " That is why we must strive
to turn the bitter cycle of demanding an eye for an eye, into one
of offering a hand for a hand. We shall continue our efforts to
help bring peace back home to this vital and historic part of the
world, so that someday, its 'bread of affliction' may become
'bread cast upon the waters. ']
Gibran once wrote, "love is a word of light, written by a
hand of light, upon a page of light. " The hand is his, and the
page -- our hearts. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen,
and God bless the United States of America.
3
That region gave us a symbol of peace in Gibran. It is
cruel irony and poetic injustice that those lands now suffer the
strife of hatred and fear. I know you all share my hopes for
Secretary Baker's success in his peace-seeking mission. Our
Administration's efforts are premised by those words Bill just
quoted: "We are all children of the same supreme being." That is
why we must strive to turn the bitter cycle of demanding an eye
for an eye, into one of offering a hand for a hand. We shall
continue our efforts to help bring peace back home to this vital
and historic part of the world, so that someday, its 'bread of
affliction' may become 'bread cast upon the waters. ']
Gibran once wrote, "love is a word of light, written by a
hand of light, upon a page of light." The hand is his, and the
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page your hearts
Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, and
God bless the United States of America.
October 19, 1984
The
sponsors of S.J. Res. 301
E. de la Garza (Texas)
James Abdnor (South Dakota)
Ronald V. Dellums (California)
Kahlil Gibran Memorial Garden
Lloyd Bentsen (Texas)
Mervyn Dymally (California)
Rudy Boschwitz (Minnesota)
Dante B. Fascell (Florida)
Alan Dixon (Illinois)
Edward F. Feighan (Ohio)
Christopher Dodd (Connecticut)
Barney Frank (Massachusetts)
Robert Dole (Kansas)
Bill Frenzel (Minnesota)
Pete V. Domenici (New Mexico)
Martin Frost (Texas)
Orin Hatch (Utah)
Don Fuqua (Florida)
Paula Hawkins (Florida)
Henry B. Gonzales (Texas)
John Heinz (Pennsylvania)
Albert Gore, Jr. (Tennessee)
Daniel K. Inouve (Hawaii)
William H. Gray. III (Pennsylvania)
Edward Kennedy (Massachusetts)
Frank Horton (New York)
Paul Laxalt (Nevada)
Abraham Kazen (Texas)
Carl M. Levin (Michigan)
Dale E. Kildee (Michigan)
Spark M. Matsunaga (Hawaii)
Tom Lantos (California)
George Mitchell (Maine)
Mickey Leland (Texas)
Sam Nunn (Georgia)
Sander M. Levin (Michigan)
Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island)
Mel Levine (California)
Charles H. Percy (Illinois)
Bill Lowery (California)
Larry Pressler (South Dakota)
Thomas A. Luken (Ohio)
Dan Quayle (Indiana)
Edward Markey (Massachusetts)
Donald W. Riegle (Michigan)
Alan B. Mollohan (West Virginia)
Paul S. Sarbannes (Maryland)
Austin] Murphy (Pennsylvania)
John Warner (Virginia)
John P. Murtha (Pennsylvania)
Pete Wilson (California)
Mary Rose Oakar (Ohio)
Claude Pepper (Florida)
Cosponsors in the House of
NickJ Rahall (West Virginia)
Representatives
William R. Ratchford (Connecticut)
Mike Andrews (Texas)
Bill Richardson (New Mexico)
A Gift to the People
Robert E. Badham (California)
Robert A. Roe (New Jersey)
Jim Bates (California)
Neal Smith (lowa)
Howard Berman (California)
Charles W. Stenholm (Texas)
of the
Sherwood Boehlert (New York)
Louis Stokes (Ohio)
David E. Bonior (Michigan)
Lindsay Thomas (Georgia)
C. Robin Britt (North Carolina)
United States of America
Bob Traxler (Michigan)
John Convers, Jr. (Michigan)
Morris Udall (Arizona)
George W. Crockett.Jr. (Michigan)
Guv Vander Jagt (Michigan)
George Darden (Georgia)
Bruce F. Vento (Minnesota)
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation
1738 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 331-7741
Kahlil Gibran Memorial
Kahlil Gibran
Under the Honorary Patronage of
Garden Dedication
Centennial Foundation
Committee
Board of Directors
President and Mrs. Bush
Peter S. Tanous
William J. Baroody, Jr.
(U.S. Army, Retired)
Chairman and President
Chairman
Sheryl Dekour Ameen
The Board of Directors of
ExecutiveDirector/
Adelene Abercia
Cultural Affairs
Vice Chairman
William A. Anawaty, Jr.
The Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation
Executive Director/
Kahlil Gibran
Operations
requests the pleasure of your company for
Centennial Foundation
Honorary Committee
Adelene Abercia
The Honorable Jimmy
Robert S. Andrews
a Memorial Day Weekend of Events to
Carter
Anthony Asher
Chairman
Munir Barakat
celebrate the dedication of
Alice Edde
A. Robert Abboud
Samia Farouki
The Kahlil Gibran Memorial Garden
The Honorable Victor
Antoine G. Ghafari
Atiyeh
William M. Isaac
Michael E. Baroody
Nadeem Maasry
May 23 27, 1991
William Peter Blatty
Mae Moussa
Richard A. Debs
Talat M. Othman
Mrs. Johnson Garrett
Camille F. Sarrouf
Vartan Gregorian
Lawrence J. Shibley
The Honorable Armin H.
Alexander A. Simon, Jr.
Meyer
Peter J. Tanous
The Honorable Claiborne
Harry M. Zachem
Pell
S. Dillon Ripley
Mary Faye Dudley
Robert M. Warner
Assistant to Chairman/
Flip Wilson
Director Special Projects
The Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation is
established in the District of Columbia as a 501 (c) (3)
nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible
RVSP by May 15
to the extent provided by law.
Card enclosed
The Kahlil Gibran Memorial
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation
1738 N Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 331-7741
Cosponsors in the
"Hundreds of years later, when the people of the
House of Representatives
city arose from the diseased slumber of ignorance
and saw the dawn of knowledge, they erected a
Mike Andrews (Texas)
monument in the most beautiful garden of the
Robert E. Badham (California)
city and celebrated a feast every year in honour of
Jim Bates (California)
that poet, whose writings had freed them. Oh how
Howard Berman (California)
Sherwood Boehlert (California)
cruel is man's ignorance!"
David E. Bonior (Michigan)
-The Poet's Death is His Life-
C. Robin Britt (North Carolina)
John Conyers, Jr. (Michigan)
George W. Crockett, Jr. (Michigan)
George Darden (Georgia)
here is a quiet space in a busy city
E. de la Garza (Texas)
where people of all races, na-
Ronald V. Dellums (California)
tionalities and creeds will soon be
Mervyn Dymally (California)
able to go to experience the spirit of poetry
Dante B. Fascell (Florida)
and enjoy the sweet repose of solitude. It is
Edward F. Feighan (Ohio)
Barney Frank (Massachusetts)
a place that celebrates a man who devoted
Bill Frenzel (Minnesota)
his art to uniting humanity and elevating
Martin Frost (Texas)
the human condition.
Don Fuqua (Florida)
Henry B. Gonzales (Texas)
After years of efforts by those who admire
Albert Gore, Jr. (Tennessee)
and are inspired by his writing and his art,
William H. Gray, III (Pennsylvania)
Kahlil Gibran will be commemorated on a
Frank Horton (New York)
U.S. National Park site dedicated in his
Abraham Kazen (Texas)
Dale E. Kildee (Michigan)
name by the Kahlil Gibran Centennial
Tom Lantos (California)
Foundation of Washington, D.C.
Mickey Leland (Texas)
Sander M. Levin (Michigan)
Legislative contact during months of Foun-
Mel Levine (California)
dation efforts led to authorization of this
Bill Lowery (California)
memorial garden by a joint resolution of
Thomas A. Luken (Ohio)
the 98th United States Congress on
Edward Markey (Massachusetts)
October 19, 1984.
Alan B. Mollohan (West Virginia)
Austin J. Murphy (Pennsylvania)
The Foundation hopes to enhance this trib-
John P. Murtha (Pennsylvania)
ute to Gibran with a traveling exhibition of
Mary Rose Oakar (Ohio)
Claude Pepper (Florida)
his art work. In the future, the Foundation
Nick J. Rahall (West Virginia)
will seek support to establish a repository in
William R. Ratchford (Connecticut)
the United States for his literary manu-
Bill Richardson (New Mexico)
scripts, art and memorabilia.
Robert A. Roe (New Jersey)
Neal Smith (Iowa)
Charles W. Stenholm (Texas)
Louis Stokes (Ohio)
Lindsay Thomas (Georgia)
Bob Traxler (Michigan)
Morris Udall (Arizona)
Guy Vander Jagt (Michigan)
Bruce F. Vento (Minnesota)
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Cosponsors of S.J. Res. 301
1883 - 1931
James Abdnor (South Dakota)
Lloyd Bentsen (Texas)
ahlil Gibran and his family came to
Rudy Boschwitz (Minnesota)
America seeking the artistic, re-
Alan J. Dixon (Illinois)
ligious and economic freedom
Christopher Dodd (Connecticut)
sought by the millions of other emigrants
Robert J. Dole (Kansas)
who form the fabric of American culture.
Pete V. Domenici (New Mexico)
His sojourn from the Lebanese village of
Besharri took him to Boston and a life of
Orin Hatch (Utah)
poverty. He soon overcame the trials of
Paula Hawkins (Florida)
starting life in a new country through the
John Heinz (Pennsylvania)
courageous vision and literary talents he
Daniel K. Inouye (Hawaii)
possessed and then gave to his adopted
Edward Kennedy (Massachusetts)
country. By his death at 48, Gibran, both an
Paul Laxalt (New Mexico)
artist and a writer, had become a literary
Carl M. Levin (Michigan)
giant bequeathing to the people of all na-
tions a prodigious body of work.
Spark M. Matsunaga (Hawaii)
George J. Mitchell (Maine)
Inspiring the creation of his own school of
Sam Nunn (Georgia)
Arabic literature, Gibran also significantly
influenced untold generations of Amer-
Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island)
icans through his English writings and
Charles H. Percy (Illinois)
translations of his Arabic work. His mes-
Larry Pressler (South Dakota)
sages of tolerance and compassion remain
Dan Quayle (Indiana)
a symbol of unity, democracy and peace for
Donald W. Riegle (Michigan)
people all over the world. Over eight mil-
Paul S. Sarbannes (Maryland)
lion copies of The Prophet have been sold
and collections of Gibran's work have been
John Warner (Virginia)
translated into more than 50 languages. He
Pete Wilson (California)
continues to be one of the most widely
quoted authors in the United States and ex-
cerpts from his work are often used by polit-
ical, religious, and business leaders.
Kahlil Gibran Centennial
THE MEMORIAL
Foundation Honorary Committee
"I believe in you and I believe in your destiny. I
The Honorable Jimmy Carter
believe that you have inherited from your fore-
Chairman
fathers an ancient dream, a song, a prophecy,
A. Robert Abboud
which you can proudly lay as a gift of gratitude
upon the lap of America. "
The Honorable Victor Atiyeh
-I Believe in You-
Michael E. Baroody
William Peter Blatty
n October 19, 1989, the Founda-
Richard A. Debs
tion held a groundbreaking cer-
Mrs. Johnson Garrett
emony on the site of the Kahlil Gi-
bran Memorial Garden, with Secretary of
Vartan Gregorian
Interior Manual Lujan officiating. The me-
The Honorable Armin H. Meyer
morial occupies a prestigious location on
Embassy Row in our nation's capital. Its
The Honorable Claiborne Pell
neighbors include the British Embassy,
Winston Churchill Park, and the residence
S. Dillon Ripley
of the Vice President of the United States.
Danny Thomas
Construction on the memorial began in
Robert M. Warner
October, 1990, with a scheduled comple-
Flip Wilson
tion date of April, 1991. Charles H. Tomp-
kins Company, construction contractor for
the memorial, was responsible for the East
Wing of the National Gallery and the recent
renovation of the east face of the Capitol, as
well as the Iwo Jima Memorial. Hellmuth,
Obata and Kassabaum, architects for the
memorial garden, are known for the design
of the National Air and Space Museum, the
World Bank and the National Archives.
Kahlil Gibran Memorial Garden
Dedication Committee
The President and Mrs. Bush
Visitors to the memorial will cross a foot-
Honorary Co-Chairmen
bridge to a garden, in which fountains and
sculpture will create a serene and con-
Peter S. Tanous (U.S. Army, Retired)
templative environment. A sculpture of Gi-
Chairman
bran will greet them as they enter the me-
Adelene Abercia
morial and, as they reach the center of the
Vice Chairman
garden's wooded hillside, they will en-
counter a fountain surrounded by cedars
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation
of Lebanon. Gibran quotations will be
Board of Directors
carved into the memorial's limestone
William J. Baroody, Jr.
benches.
Chairman and President
Sheryl Dekour Ameen
Executive Director/Cultural Affairs
William A. Anawaty, Jr.
Executive Director/Operations
Adelene Abercia
Robert S. Andrews
Anthony Asher
Munir Barakat
Alice Edde
Samia Farouki
Antoine G. Ghafari
William M. Isaac
Nadeem Maasry
Mae Moussa
Talat M. Othman
Camille F. Sarrouf
Lawrence J. Shibley
Alexander A. Simon, Jr.
Peter J. Tanous
Harry M. Zachem
Mary Faye Dudley
Assistant to Chairman/Director Special Projects
YOUR DONATION
THE DEDICATION
IS A LEGACY
he 1991 dedication of the Kahlil Gi-
bran Memorial Garden marks the
he Foundation seeks your support
in order to complete construction
passage from dream to reality for
and maintain the memorial. Leave
thousands of contributors from throughout
the United States and around the world. We
a legacy for future generations by sending
your tax-deductible contribution today.
invite you now to become a part of this im-
Your contribution to the Memorial Garden
portant dedication and tribute to Gibran's
will be enjoyed by you and millions of vis-
bequest.
itors to the nation's capital.
President and Mrs. Bush are honorary Co-
Please do not delay. We need your help.
Chairmen of the dedication committee,
The names of donors of $25,000 or more
which is preparing a weekend of dedication
will be encased in a time capsule at the Me-
events during the Memorial Day weekend,
morial and all donors will be recorded in
May 23 -27, 1991. People of all nations will
the National Archives, the resting place of
be brought together to celebrate Gibran,
the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of In-
his work and the spirit imbued in all people
dependence. All donors will be recognized
who come to the United States seeking free-
in Foundation literature and dedication ac-
dom and basic human rights. Activities will
tivities, as well.
include a dedication ceremony on the site,
a reading of Gibran's poetry at the Library
Please contribute to this lasting tribute to
of Congress, a special awards banquet and
Kahlil Gibran.
a gala evening for the performing and crea-
tive arts.
You are invited to join President and Mrs.
Bush, Jamie Farr, Casey Kasem, Danny
Thomas and Flip Wilson, among other ce-
lebrities of national and international
prominence, to be featured at events
throughout the weekend.
The Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation is established in
the District of Columbia as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit
organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent
provided by law.
Illustration by George Dickie
The Kahlil Gibran Memorial
Mary Faye Dudley
Assistant to the Chairman
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Director, Special Projects
MEMORIAL GARDEN
DEDICATION COMMITTEE
KAHLIL GIBRAN
1738 N Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
President and Mrs. Bush
CENTENNIAL
(202) 331-7741
Honorary Co-Chairs
FOUNDATION
FAX: (202) 331-4963
Col. Peter S. Tanous
U.S. Army (Retired)
Chairman
May 6, 1991
Adelene Abercia
Vice Chair
KAHLIL GIBRAN
CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
Ms. Lisa Battaglia
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Office of Public Liaison
The White House
William J. Baroody, Jr.
Chairman and President
Washington, D.C. 20500
Sheryl Dekour Ameen
Executive Director/Cultural
Affairs
Dear Lisa:
William A. Anawaty, Jr.
Executive Director/Operations
Bill Baroody asked me to send you this package of information to
Adelene Abercia
help you in considering all that is involved with President Bush's
Robert S. Andrews
Anthony Asher
participation in the Dedication Ceremony of the Kahlil Gibran
Munir Barakat
Memorial Garden.
Alice Edde
Samia Farouki
Antoine G. Ghafari
William M. Isaac
The President has confirmed arrival at 9:30 AM, Friday, May 24,
Nadeem Maasry
Mae Moussa
1991, at the site on Massachusetts Avenue, directly across the street
Talat M. Othman
Camille F. Sarrouf
from the British Embassy.
Lawrence J. Shibley
Alexander A. Simon, Jr.
Peter J. Tanous
We would like for him to make remarks and Bill Baroody will be in
Harry Zachem
touch with you in the next few days for discussion about time and
Mary Faye Dudley
content.
Assistant to Chairman/
Director Special Projects
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Meanwhile, if you have any questions about the enclosed package or
CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
need additional information, please don't hesitate to contact me.
HONORARY COMMITTEE
The Honorable
Sincerely,
Jimmy Carter, Chairman
A Robert Abboud
The Honorable Victor Atiyeh
May Saye
Michael E. Baroody
William Peter Blatty
Richard A. Debs
Mary Faye Dudley
Mrs. Johnson Garrett
Assistant to the Chairman
Ambassador Edouard Ghorra
Vartan Gregorian
The Honorable Claiborne Pell
S. Dillon Ripley
Danny Thomas
Robert M. Warner
Mary Kaneb Wellman
Flip Wilson
KAHLIL GIBRAN CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
1738 N STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, DC 20036
TELEPHONE 202/331-7741 FAX 202/331-4963
KAHLIL GIBRAN
March 4, 1991
MEMORIAL GARDEN
DEDICATION COMMITTEE
President and Mrs. Bush
Dear Friends,
Honorary Co-Chairs
Col. Peter S. Tanous
I am writing to give you advance notice of our good news. The
U.S. Army (Retired)
Chairman
Kahlil Gibran Memorial Garden will become a reality here in Washington
Adelene Abercia
in the spring of 1991. Actual construction began on our Embassy Row site
Vice Chair
in October, 1990.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
Our architectural firm, Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, is the well
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
known designer of the National Air and Space Museum and The World
William J. Baroody, Jr.
Bank. Our construction contractor, Charles H. Tompkins Co., a subsidiary
Chairman and President
of J.A. Jones, is responsible for the East Wing of the National Gallery, the
Sheryl Dekour Ameen
Executive Director/Cultural
Iwo Jima Memorial, the buildings of the National Geographic Society and
Affairs
the recent restoration of the east face of The Capitol.
William A. Anawaty, Jr.
Executive Director/Operations
We also thought you would like to hear that President and Mrs.
Adelene Abercia
Robert S. Andrews
George Bush have agreed to serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Kahlil
Anthony Asher
Gibran Memorial Garden Dedication Committee.
Munir Barakat
Alice Edde
Samia Farouki
Antoine G. Ghafari
The dedication ceremonies and festivities will take place over the
William M. Isaac
Nadeem Maasry
Memorial Day Weekend, May 23-27, 1991, in our Nation's Capital. I have
Mae Moussa
Talat M. Othman
appointed Col. Peter S. Tanous, U.S. Army (Retired), of Washington, DC
Camille F. Sarrouf
and Adelene Abercia, of Houston, Texas, to serve as chairman and vice-
Lawrence J. Shibley
Alexander A. Simon, Jr.
chair, respectively, on the Dedication Committee.
Peter J. Tanous
Harry Zachem
Mary Faye Dudley
Highlights of the weekend will begin on Thursday evening, May
Assistant to Chairman/
23rd, with a poetry reading and reception at the U.S. Library of Congress.
Director Special Projects
On Friday morning, May 24th, an official dedication ceremony will be held
KAHLIL GIBRAN
on the site on Massachusetts Avenue, with a special awards banquet that
CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
evening.
HONORARY COMMITTEE
The Honorable
Jimmy Carter, Chairman
On the following Saturday evening, May 25th, we are planning a
A Robert Abboud
star-studded night of performing arts, which will feature many celebrities,
The Honorable Victor Atiyeh
including Casey Kasem, Flip Wilson and Jamie Farr.
Michael E. Baroody
William Peter Blatty
Richard A. Debs
Mrs. Johnson Garrett
We have enclosed a form, which we hope you will return with your
Ambassador Edouard Ghorra
Vartan Gregorian
check, as advance booking for the weekend of events at a cost of $395.00
The Honorable Claiborne Pell
per person.
S. Dillon Ripley
Danny Thomas
Robert M. Warner
Mary Kaneb Wellman
Flip Wilson
KAHLIL GIBRAN CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
1738 N STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, DC 20036
TELEPHONE 202/331-7741 FAX 202/331-4963
Page 2
Also, for your convenience, a limited block of rooms have been
guaranteed in advance at the J.W. Marriott Hotel at a special price of $110 per
room per night for those who make reservations for the weekend and ask for
the special rate for the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation. All shuttle buses
for weekend events will depart and return to the J.W. Marriott.
We recommend that you make your reservations as soon as possible.
We will send you by return mail a reservation card, which you can fill out and
mail directly to the J.W. Marriott in Washington, DC.
If you should prefer to stay at another hotel in the area please make
your own arrangements directly. Two nearby hotels are the Willard Hotel at
1-(800) 327-0200 or the Hotel Washington at 1-(800) 424-9540. In DC, MD
or VA the Hotel Washington telephone is (202) 638-5900.
We will be sending more detailed information about the Dedication
events and the headliners who will be involved, if you should decide to attend.
Meanwhile, I urge you to make your reservations as soon as possible.
Also, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your early
interest in the Kahlil Gibran Memorial Garden and I look forward to greeting
you personally at the site.
Sincerely,
Bill Banoody
William J. Baroody, Jr.
Chairman and President
Enclosure
K
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation
The Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation was launched in Washington, DC, in 1983, one
hundred years after the birth of Kahlil Gibran, to commemorate this versatile artist and his
lasting contributions to mankind. In addition to the creation of a memorial garden in
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Washington, DC, the Foundation plans to organize a traveling exhibition of Gibran's art
MEMORIAL GARDEN
works and has a long term goal to establish a repository in the United States for Kahlil
DEDICATION COMMITTEE
Gibran's works and related memorabilia.
President and Mrs. Bush
The Memorial
Honorary Co-Chairs
Col. Peter S. Tanous
On October 19, 1989, an official groundbreaking ceremony was held on the site of the Kahlil
U.S. Army (Retired)
Chairman
Gibran Memorial Garden. The memorial is located on Embassy Row in our nation's capital,
directly across Massachusetts Avenue from the British Embassy and the Winston Churchill
Adelene Abercia
Vice Chair
Park, and diagonally across the street from the residence of the Vice President of the United
States. Construction began in October, 1990, with a scheduled completion date of April,
KAHLIL GIBRAN
1991.
CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Dedication
William J. Baroody, Jr.
Chairman and President
As you will see in the tentative schedule, plans are underway for a weekend of dedication
Sheryl Dekour Ameen
events during Memorial Day weekend, May 23-27, 1991.
Executive Director/Cultural
Affairs
William A. Anawaty, Jr.
Executive Director/Operations
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation Dedication Weekend, May 23-27, 1991
Tentative Schedule
Adelene Abercia
Thursday, May 23, 1991
Robert S. Andrews
12:00 pm
8:00 pm
Registration J.W. Marriott
Anthony Asher
12:00 pm
8:00 pm
Hospitality Suite J.W. Marriott
Munir Barakat
6:45 pm
7:30 pm
Buses Depart J.W. Marriott
Alice Edde
8:00 pm
10:00 pm
Samia Farouki
Poetry Reading and Reception (U.S. Library of Congress)
10:00 pm
-
11:00 pm
Buses Return to J.W. Marriott
Antoine G. Ghafari
William M. Isaac
Friday, May 24, 1991
Nadeem Maasry
8:30 am
8:00 pm
Registration J.W. Marriott
Mae Moussa
8:30 am
8:00 pm
Hospitality Suite J.W. Marriott
Talat M. Othman
8:00 am
-
8:45 am
Buses Depart J.W. Marriott
Camille F. Sarrouf
9:30 am
10:30 am
Dedication Ceremony (Kahlil Gibran Memorial, Massachusetts Avenue)
Lawrence J. Shibley
11:00 am
2:00 pm
Congressional Reception and Dedication Luncheon (Location to be Announced; Bus
Alexander A. Simon, Jr.
Service to be Provided)
Peter J. Tanous
2:00 pm
6:30 pm
Open
Harry Zachem
6:30 pm
-
7:30 pm
Buses Depart J.W. Marriott
7:00 pm
1:00 am
Kahlil Gibran Black Tie Reception and Awards Dinner (The National Building Museum)
Mary Faye Dudley
10:30 pm
-
1:30 am
Buses Return to J.W. Marriott
Assistant to Chairman/
Saturday, May 25, 1991
Director Special Projects
9:00 am
6:00 pm
Registration J.W. Marriott
9:00 am
6:00 pm
Hospitality Suite J.W. Marriott
KAHLIL GIBRAN
11:00 am
1:00 p.m
Kahlil Gibran Exhibit and Reception (Location to be Announced)
2:00 pm
5:00 pm
CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
Open
5:00 pm
5:45 pm
Buses Depart J.W. Marriott
HONORARY COMMITTEE
6:00 pm
9:00 pm
Kahlil Gibran Embassy Reception(s)
8:45 pm
9:30 pm
Buses Return to J.W. Marriott
The Honorable
Sunday, May 26, 1991
Jimmy Carter, Chairman
9:00 am
10:30 am
Nondenominational Services (Location to be Announced)
10:30 am
12:00 pm
Farewell Brunch J.W. Marriott
A Robert Abboud
The Honorable Victor Ativch
Michael E. Baroody
William Peter Blatty
Richard A. Debs
Mrs Johnson Garrett
Ambassador Edouard Ghorra
"Hundreds of years later, when the people of the city arose from the diseased slumber of
Vartan Gregonan
The Honorable Luborne Pell
ignorance and saw the dawn of knowledge, they erected a monument in the most beautiful
Dillon Hiples
Danny Thomas
garden of the city and celebrated is feast every year In honour of that poet, whose writings
Robert M. Warner
had freed them. Oh how cruel is man's ignorance."
Mary Kaneb Wellman
Flip Wilson
- A Poet's Death is His Life
KAHLIL GIBRAN CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION
1738 N STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, DC 20036
TELEPHONE 202/331-7741 FAX 202/331-4963
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 16, 1990
Dear Bill:
Barbara and I are pleased to accept your invitation
to serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Kahlil Gibran
Memorial Garden Dedication Committee.
We believe in your goals, and we are proud to give our
support to your organization's initiatives. Thank you
for extending this opportunity to us.
Our appreciation and best wishes.
Sincerely
Cy
The Honorable William J. Baroody, Jr.
Chairman and President
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation
1738 N Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
PUBLIC LAW 98-537-OCT. 19, 1984
98 STAT. 2715
Public Law 98-537
98th Congress
Joint Resolution
Authorizing the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation to establish a memorial in the
Oct. 19, 1984
District of Columbia or its environs.
[H.J. Res. 580]
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation is authorized to establish a
memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs
to honor the Lebanese-American poet and artist, Kahlil Gibran.
(b) In carrying out subsection (a), the Foundation shall be respon-
sible for preparation of the design and plans for the memorial,
which shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the
Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital
Planning Commission.
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior-
(1) with the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the
National Capital Planning Commission, shall select a site for
the memorial;
(2) shall not permit construction of the memorial to begin
unless the Secretary determines that sufficient amounts are
available for completion of the memorial in accordance with the
approved design and plans; and
(3) shall be responsible for maintenance of the memorial after
completion of construction.
SEC. 3. The United States shall not pay any expense of the
establishment of the memorial.
SEC. 4. The authority to establish the memorial under this resolu-
Expiration date.
tion shall expire at the end of the five-year period beginning on the
date of the enactment of this resolution, unless construction of the
memorial begins during that period.
Approved October 19, 1984.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-H.J. Res. 580:
HOUSE REPORT No. 98-1051 (Comm. on House Administration).
SENATE REPORT No. 98-640 (Comm. on Rules and Administration).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Vol. 130 (1984):
Sept. 24, considered and passed House.
Oct. 4. considered and passed Senate.
51-139 O - 84 (583)
S 6458
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE
May 24, 1984
real property tn Jackson County. Oregon,
NEDY, Mr. LEOUYE Mr. RIBGLE
tion of this resolution. If the site selected is
forming a part of the right-of-way granted
Mr. DOLE Mr. BENTEEN and
on public grounds belonging to or under the
by the United States to the California and
Mr. SARRANTER
jurisdiction of the District of Columbia, the
Oregon Raflroad Company under the Act
S.L. Res 30L Joint resolution to au-
approval of the Mayor of the District of Co
entitled "An Act granting Lands to aid to
lumbia shall also be obtained.
thorise the Kahll Gibran Centennial
the Construction of a Railroad and Tele-
(b) The design and plans for such memori-
graph from the Central Pacific Railroad. BY
Foundation of Washington D.C., to
at shall be subject to the approval of the
California to Portland, to Oregon". so
erect a memorial in the District of Co-
Secretary of the Interior. the National Com-
proved July 25. 1866 (14 Stat 239), is con-
lumbis: to the Committee on Rules
mission of Fine Arts and the National Cap-
firmed tn Ernest Pritchett and his wife
and Administration
ttal Planning Commission.
Dianna Pritchett, the grantees tn such con-
MEMORIAL DI COMMEMORATION or KARLIL
(c) Other than M to the land authorized
veyance. and their successors to interest,
GIRRAN
for the erection of the memorial in the first
with respect to all interests of the United
Mr. MITCHELL Mr. President, I
section. neither the United States nor the
States in the rights to the real property de-
rise to introduce a joint resolution
District of Columbia shall be put to any ex.
acribed in section 2(b) of this Act
which would authorize the erection of
pense to the erection of the memorial
Sec. 2 (a) The conveyance confirmed by
Sx. 1. The authority conferred pursuant
this Act was made by a deed dated July 21.
= memorial. on public grounds tn the
to this resolution shall lapse unless-
1982. by the Southern Pacific Transports-
District of Columbia, in commemors-
-(1) the eraction of such memorial is com-
tion Company to Ernest Pritchett and his
tion of Kahlo Gibran, the Lebanese-
menced within five years from the date of
wife Dianna Pritchett. and recorded on Oo-
American poet and artist.
enactment of this resolution: and
tober 20. 1982. trr the official records of
Joining me in offering this joint res-
(2) prior to its commencement funds are
Jackson County. Document No. 82-15174.
(b) The real property referred to to the
olution today are Senators ARDNOR,
certified available in an amount sufficient.
first section of this Act is a parcel of land in
PERCY, PELL BOSCHWITZ, KENNEDY,
to the judgment of the Secretary of the In-
INOUTE RIEGLE DOLE and BENTEEN.
terior to insure completion of the memorial.
the Northwest Quarter of Section 28. Town-
Kahlo Gibran, born.100 years ago in
Bac. 1 The maintenance and care of the
ship 36 South Range 4 West Willamette
Besharrt, Lebanon, moved with his
memorial arected under the provisions of
Meridian.' County of Jackson. State of
this resolution shall be the responsibility of
Oregon, more particularly described as 101-
family at the age of 12 to the United
the Secretary of the Interior.
lows
States where he lived the rest of his
Commencing at the West Quarter COTTER
of such Section 28: thence South 89 degrees
Iife. By his death at 48, he had pro-
46 feet 45 inches East along the southerly
duced, as both writer and artist, a pro-
line of such Northwest Quarter of Section
digious body of work which stands
25 a distance of 1082.50 feet to a point in &
today as an artistic legacy to people of
line parallel with and distant 100 feet north-
all nations.
easterly. measured at right angles from the
The writings of Kahlil Gibran are
original located center line of Southern Ps.
among the world's most popular. with
eific Transportation Company's main track
(Siskiyou Branch). and also the True Point
collections of his work appearing tn
of Beginning of the parcel to be described:
more than 50 languages. Over 7 mil-
thence North 65 degrees 2 feet 35 inches
lion copies have been sold of his most
West along such parallel line 1191.92 feet to
memorable work, The Prophet," now
the westerly line of such Section 28: thenor
to its 109th printing.
South zero degrees 12 fest 52 inches West
The Kahlll Gibran Memorial is
along such westerly line 55.05 feet to a point
being offered as a gift to the American
to a line parallel with and distant 50 feet
people by the Kahlil Gibran Centenni-
northeasterly. measured at right anglex,
al Foundation. The foundation is an
from such center line thence South 63 de-
grees 2 feet 35 inches East along last such
American nonprofit organizations
parallel line. M last such parallel line being
whose projects commemorate this im-
also the northeasterly line of that certain
portant artist and his message of uni
parcel of land described to deed dated June
versal brotherhood. Gibran's dreams
23. 1883. from Frederick G. Birdsey to
of human dignity and cooperation can
Oregon and California Railroad Company.
be a source of inspiration to each of
recorded July 28. 1883, tn Deed Book 10,
a
Page 463, Records of such County, a die-
tance of 1060.35 feet to such southerly line:
I urge my colleagues to join with me
thence South 89 degrees 46 feet 45 inches
and the original cosponsors of this res-
East along such southerly line 119.49 feet to
olution in honoring Kahlil Glbran
the True Point of Beginning. containing an
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
area of 1.293 acres. more or less.
sent that the full text of my resolu-
Sec. 3. (a) Nothing tn this Act shall-
tion appear in the RECORD at this
(1) diminish the right-of-way referred to
point
to the first section of this Act to a width of
There being no objection. the resolu-
less than 50 feet on each side of the center
of the main track or tracks established and
don was ordered to be printed in the
maintained by the Southern Pacific Trans-
RECORD, as follows:
portation Company BD the date of enact-
S. REE. 301
ment of this Act or
Resolved by the Senate and House of Rev
(2) validate or confirm any right or title
resentatives as the United States of America
to. or interest in the land referred to in the
in Congress assembled, That the Kahlil
first section of this Act arising out of ad-
Gibran Centennial Foundation of Washing-
verse possession. prescription. or abandon-
ton. District of Columbia. is authorized to
ment and not confirmed by conveyance by
arect a memorial on public grounds in the
the Southern Pacific Transportation Com-
District of Columbia, subject to authorize.
pany before the date of enactment of this
tion by the Secretary of the Interior as pro-
ACC
vided to section 2 tn commemoration of the
(b) There is reserved to the United States
Lsbanese-American poet and artist Kahlo
all oil coal. or other minerals in the land re-
Gibran The memorial shall be in the form
ferred to in the first section of this Act to
of a sculptured monument and shall be dee-
gether with the right to prospect for. mine.
ignated the Kahlo Gibran Memorial
and remove such oil coal. or other minerals
SEC 2 (a) The Secretary of the Interior is.
under such rules and regulations as the Sec-
authorized to select with the approval of
retury of the Interior may prescribe.e
the National Commission of Fine Arts and
the National Capital Planning Commission,
By Mr. MITCHELL (for himself.
a suitable site on public grounds to the Dis-
Mr. ANDNOR Mr. PERCY. Mr.
trict of Columbia, upon which may be arect-
PILL Mr. BOSCHWITZ, Mr. KEN-
ed the memorial authorized in the first no-
THE COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS
ESTABLISHED BY CONGRESS MAY 17, 1910
J. CARTER BROWN, Chairman
CAROLYN J. DEAVER
NEIL H. PORTERFIELD
ROY M. GOODMAN
PASCAL REGAN
FREDERICK E. HART
DIANE WOLF
708 JACKSON PLACE., N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006
CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Secretary
202-566-1066
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
29 June 1989
POPIVE
RECEIVEL
Dear Mr. Stanton:
At its meeting on 22 June 1989 the Commission of Fine Arts
reviewed final designs, landscaping plans, and material samples for
approved. the Kahlil Gibran Memorial. I am happy to tell you they were
The Commission's only recommendation was that the flowering
shrubs, particularly the azaleas, should be limited to white or
pastel colors, so as not to conflict with the delicate colors of
the paving stones.
Sincerely,
J. Carter Brown
Chairman
Mr. Robert Stanton
Regional Director
National Park Service
National Capital Region
1100 Ohio Drive, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20242
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION
COMMISSION
IN REPLY REFER TO;
MEMBERS
NCPC File No. 2753
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resident or the Unifed Siales
AUG 4 1987
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CHAIRMAN
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Honorable Donald Paul Hodel
Secretary of the Interior
ADDOMIES by the
Washington, D.C. 20240
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Patros Elwood
Dear Mr. Secretary:
Secterary or Defense
aD+ Caspar W Weinberger
The National Capital Planning Commission, at its meeting on July 30,
Secretary of the interior
provace Donald Paul Hodel
151/810 of General Services
1987, approved the enclosed report to you on the site location for
ancrable Terence C. Golden
Chairman Committee on
Governmental Affairs
the Kahlil Gibran Memorial in Normanstone Parkway, Massachusetts
Unried States Senate
Monorable John Gienn
Avenue, NY., near Observatory Circle.
hairman Commee on the
District of
House or Representatives
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Maror District or Coumon
Sincerely,
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Chairman Council or the
Disirect of Commons
Monorable Dave A Care
Reginald W. Griffith
Executive Director
Enclosure
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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bc:
Fred L. Greene, Director, D.C Office of Planning
John C. Parsons, National Capital Region
National Park Service
REMARKS OF WILLIAM J. BAROODY, JR., CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT
KAHLIL GIBRAN CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION IN INTRODUCING
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1991
"I LOVE YOU, MY BROTHER, WHOEVER YOU ARE
WHETHER YOU WORSHIP IN YOUR CHURCH, KNEEL IN
YOUR TEMPLE, OR PRAY IN YOUR MOSQUE. YOU AND I
ARE CHILDREN OF ONE FAITH FINGERS OF THE LOVING
HAND OF ONE SUPREME BEING, A HAND EXTENDED
TO ALL
THOSE WORDS OF KAHLIL GIBRAN CAN SERVE TODAY AS A NON-
DENOMINATIONAL PRAYER TO BEGIN THIS DEDICATION CELEBRATION
AS WE PRESENT THE KAHLIL GIBRAN MEMORIAL MEMORIAL GARDEN
AS A GIFT TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
MR. PRESIDENT, MAJORITY LEADER MITCHELL, CONGRESSWOMAN OAKAR,
AMBASSADOR LAHOUD, DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I AM BILL BAROODY, CHAIRMAN AND PRESIDENT OF THE KAHLIL GIBRAN
CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION.
THE MAN WE HONOR TODAY -- AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HIS BODY
OF WORK AND ALL THAT IT SYMBOLIZES -- GIVES US IN A WORLD
BESET WITH SEEMINGLY INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS A RAY OF HOPE
IN A HAUNTING PASSAGE IN A PIECE HE TITLED "A POET'S DEATH
IS HIS LIFE," KAHLIL GIBRAN UNKNOWINGLY PROPHESIED THE COMING
OF THIS GLORIOUS DAY WHEN HE SAID: "HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER,
WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY AROSE FROM THE DISEASED SLUMBER
OF IGNORANCE AND SAW THE DAWN OF KNOWLEDGE, THEY ERECTED A
MONUMENT IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDEN OF THE CITY AND
CELEBRATED A FEAST EVERY YEAR IN HONOUR OF THAT POET, WHOSE
WRITINGS HAD FREED THEM. OH HOW CRUEL IS MAN'S IGNORANCE!"
THIS IS INDEED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDEN IN THIS CITY OF
MEMORIALS AND IT EXISTS BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH "MAN'S IGNORANCE
IS CRUEL," MANY, MANY MEN AND WOMEN HAVE BEEN MOST KIND AND
GENEROUS IN BRINGING THE FABULOUS DREAM OF A MEDITATION
GARDEN TO FRUITION IN THE HEART OF THE CAPITAL CITY OF A
COUNTRY KAHLIL GIBRAN CAME TO LOVE AND REVERE.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT TOOK ONE PRESIDENT, RONALD REAGAN,
TO SIGN THE BILL INTO LAW IT TOOK ANOTHER, OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER
TODAY AND HIS INCREDIBLE WIFE BARBARA TO GIVE THIS FOUNDATION
AND ITS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND DEDICATION PLANS A MUCH NEEDED
BOOST BY AGREEING TO SERVE AS HONORARY COCHAIRS OF OUR NATIONAL
DEDICATION COMMITTEE. (WE REGRET THAT BARBARA COULD NOT BE WITH US
THIS MORNING, MR PRESIDENT, BUT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO AN EARLY
OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TO THE FIRST LADY, THE FIRST KAHLIL GIBRAN
LITERACY AWARD FOR HER CONTINUING OUTSTANDING WORK IN THAT ARENA.
WE ARE MOST GRATEFUL TO YOU AND TO BARBARA, MR. PRESIDENT, FOR
ALL YOU HAVE DONE TO MAKE THIS DAY A WONDERFUL REALITY.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS MY GREAT HONOR AT THIS TIME TO
PRESENT TO YOU THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MR. PRESIDENT:
(Grossman/Hinchliffe)
May 17, 1991
RASUL Draft One
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KHALIL GIBRAN DEDICATION
GIBRAN MEMORIAL GARDEN
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1991, 9:30 a.m.
Ladies and Gentlemen. It's an honor to dedicate this garden
to a man who has done so much for poetry, and through poetry, for
all of us. \ Barbara and I were pleased to serve as honorary Co-
Chairmen of the dedication committee. And now that I see the
beauty of this place, I'm struck by that committee's dedication.
\
They, and all who contributed to this memorial, offer it as a
tribute to Gibran's legacy -- his belief in brotherhood, his call
for compassion, and his passion for peace.
The spot where we now stand holds a special place in my
heart. For eight years, I lived up the street with my family.
But this memorial renders this place more special still -- by
honoring a man who enlivened candor with cadence, and lent song
to truth.
Gibran once wrote that "remembrance is a form of meeting."
So, in this garden, we meet that man again. The graceful
symmetry and slope of these grounds lead the eye in a sweep that
is, indeed, poetry in motion. The Cedars of Lebanon that will
someday canopy the poet's memorial remind us of those which once
sheltered his birth. His words carved on these benches echo
those he has etched on our memory. And as the entrance's
footbridge brings us into his garden, so his work "leads (us) to
the thresholds of (our) own mind."
2
Perhaps his greatest bequest was the key by which we opened
our own imaginations. His was not poetry for the passive, but
for the participant. He wrote that the wisest teacher reveals
"that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your
knowledge." His poetry sounded that reveille with a song of
beauty and truth.
When Gibran said that "work is love made visible," those
were not just words that he wrote, they were words that he lived.
Part poet, part philosopher -- he extracted 'the secret of the
sea (from) a drop of dew. I Poetry was the language in which he
explored his soul, and taught us about ours. And when he spoke
of the realm of the spirit, his words pressed the veil we cannot
see, yet cannot see beyond. He drew us where we were unused to
climb, and shared what he saw: the promise of a kinder, gentler
world.
As we survey today's world, we see progress towards Gibran's
vision but we also see promise unfulfilled. And we see the need
to renew Gibran's message of tolerance and compassion for a world
too often at odds \ rather than at peace. Perhaps nowhere is this
more important than in the Middle East, Gibran's homeland, where
peace still wanders as the region's prodigal son.
That region gave us a symbol of peace in Gibran. It is
cruel irony that those lands now suffer the strife of hatred and
fear. Our Administration's efforts are premised by those words
Bill just quoted, that we are all children of the same supreme
being. That is why we must strive to turn the bitter cycle of
3
demanding an eye for an eye, into one of offering a hand for a
hand. We shall continue our efforts to help bring peace back
home to this vital and historic part of the world, so that
someday, its 'bread of affliction' may become 'bread cast upon
the waters.'
Gibran once wrote, "love is a word of light, written by a
hand of light, upon a page of light. " The hand is his, and the
page -- our hearts. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen,
and God bless the United States of America.
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May 7, 1991
Jennifer Grossman
The White House
111 1/2 OEOB
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Ms. Grossman:
John Cranolski has just called us and introduced himself as an intern working
with you on the President's speech for the upcoming dedication of the Gibran
Kahlil Gibran Park.
Since he is interested in background and biographical detail, we're pleased to
forward our Kahlil Gibran His Life and World. The book is reappearing in a
revised edition with a new Introduction and Epilogue. So, we are including these
latest additions in manuscript form.
John mentioned that he was looking for some humorous quotes on or about
Gibran. If you are interested in some of his parables which fall under the "one
liner" category, perhaps you can get a copy of his book Sand and Foam.
Good luck with this project. Please let us know if we can further help.
Sincerely,
Kawiil N. Cabran
Kahlil N. Gibran
160 West Canton Street
Boston, MA 02118
617-267-0118
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166 Marriage
I married beneath me-all women do.
-NANCY ASTOR, speech, Oldham, England, 1951
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in posses-
sion of good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
-JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
[For more on this line, see Austen at WOMEN & MEN.]
It is better to marry than to burn.
-BIBLE, I Corinthians 7:9
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his
plague.
-ROBERT BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Polygamy may well be held in dread,
Not only as a sin but as a bore.
-LORD BYRON, Don Juan
Marriage is a result of the longing for the deep, deep peace of the
double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
-MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL, quoted in
Ralph G. Martin, Jenny
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned
by an adequate income.
-WILKIE COLLINS, No Name
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
-WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Old Bachelor
[The proverb-"Marry in haste, repent at leisure"-predates Con-
greve.]
A single man
is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd
half of a pair of scissors.
-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, letter to a young man, June 25, 1745
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without
marriage.
-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
I think it can be stated without denial that no man ever saw a man
he would be willing to marry if he were a woman.
-GEORGE GIBBS, How To Stay Married
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
-KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and con-
straint kills desire.
-JEAN GIRADOUX, Amphitryon 38
Parents & Parenthood 2II
See also APPEASEMENT VS. RESIST
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
PEACE; RESIGNATION; VIOLENCE: TAR
will not depart from it.
-Ibid., 22:6
eoever shall smite thee on thy -ight
Who doesn't desire his father's death?
also.
-BIBLE, Matthew 5:39
-FEDOR DOSTOEVSKI, The Brothers Karamazov
pents, and harmless as doves.
Happy that man whose children make his happiness in life and
-lbid., 00:16
not his grief.
-EURIPIDES, Orestes
article of my faith. It is also the last
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of mother keeps for
life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often
(. GANDHI, speech in defense against a
induces real success.
dition, March 23, 1922
-FREUD, quoted in Ernest Jones, Life and Works
[For the opposite view, in the English tradition, see Maugham
is readiness to die, if need be, = the
below.]
T killing him.
GANDHI, quoted in S. Hobhouse. ed.,
x
You are the bows from which your children are as living arrows
m: Some Sayings of Mahatma Gradhi
sent forth.
-KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
ed cowardice.
There are some extraordinary fathers who seem, during the whole
-ADOLF HITLER, speech, Aug. 21. 1926
course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being
consoled at their death.
-LA BRUYÈRE, Les Caractères
See ARTS: PAINTING
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders,
must himself have a great reverence for his son.
-JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
See also CHILDREN & CHILDHOOD;
FAMILY; GENERATIONS
wot in hell
have I done to deserve
ret, and so are their griefs and fears:
all these kittens.
-DoN MARQUIS, archy and mehitabel
will they utter the other.
LANCIS BACON, Of Parents and Children
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence
than to have a really affectionate mother.
iven like a loving woman; and, c= all
-W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, A Writer's Notebook
h slave as a mother.
[Cf. Freud, above.]
CHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
People are always rather bored with their parents. That's human
e cradle goes all the way down to the
nature.
-W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Bread-Winner
-Frid.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
mother.
-BIBLE, Exodus 22:12,
To have a thankless child!
-SHAKESPEARE, King Lear, I, iv
and elsewhere
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
th his son.
-BIBLE, Proverbs 13:24
-SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice, II, ii
232 Prayer
God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be
few.
-BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 5:5
When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of
the streets that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you,
they have their reward.
-BIBLE, Matthew 6:6
Watch and pray.
-BIBLE, Mark 13:33
Pray, V. To ask that the rules of the universe be annulled in behalf
of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.
-AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
Prayer is conversation with God.
-CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA, Stromateis
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
-SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
-Ibid.
Prayer is the little implement
Through which men reach
Where presence-is denied them.
-EMILY DICKINSON, poem
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest
point of view.
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Self-Reliance
You pray in your distress and in your need: would that you might
pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
-KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
-OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should
himself lend a hand.
-HIPPOCRATES, Regimen
Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.
-HOMER, Odyssey
Work
345
: centuries as looking-glasses possessing
Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of them
er of reflecting the figure of man at
is work.
-CLARENCE DARROW, quoted in Kevin Tierney, Darrow
-Ibid.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfor-
See ARTS: STYLE IN WRITING
tunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
-"FATS" DOMINO, attributed
& EXPRESSION; LANGUAGE
Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only
through work and struggle.
See also ACCOMPLISHMENT; DOING;
-FËDOR DOSTOEVSKI, A Diary of a Writer
PERSEVERANCE & ENDURANCE
There is no substitute for hard work.
nking classes.
ANONYMOUS
-THOMAS ALVA EDISON, Life
rudgery is.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from
-HENRY WARD BEECHER,
within, from one's own efforts.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
-ALBERT EINSTEIN, Out of My Later Years
Farming looks might easy when your plow is a pencil and you're
; not work? These are questions that
a thousand miles from a cornfield.
-BHAGAVAD GITA
-DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, speech, Sept. 25, 1956
onsider her ways, and be wise:
To the worker, God himself lends aid. -EURIPIDES, Hippolytus
seer, or ruler,
summer, and gathereth her food in
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
-BIBLE, Proverbs 6:6-8
-MARGARET FULLER, Summer on the Lakes
hire.
-BIBLE, Luke 10:7
+ All work is empty save when there is love.
-KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
Strive diligently.
-BUDDHA, reputed last words
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is duty, life
is slavery.
-MAXIM GORKY, The Lower Depths
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one be-
URTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy,
comes ruled by them.
bn words
-HERACLITUS, fragment
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the
is work. Let him ask no other blessed-
world justifies.
--RUDYARD KIPLING, The Phantom Rickshaw
-THOMAS CARLYLE, Past and Present
Under the spreading chestnut tree
r day's work": it is as just a demand
The village smithy stands;
governing. It is the everlasting right
The smith a mighty man is he
-Ibid.
With large and sinewy hands.
And the muscles of his brawny arms
1 the maladies and miseries that ever
Are strong as iron bands.
OMAS CARLYLE, speech, April 2, 1886
He earns what'er he can,
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
) rust out.
And looks the whole world in the face,
MBERLAND, quoted in George Horne,
For he owes not any man.
e Duty of Contending for the Truth
-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, The Village Blacksmith
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The Universal Art
There music with her silver sound
With speed is wont to send redress.
"A Song to the Lute in Music,"
Attributed to Richard Edwards (?1523-66)
Paradyse of Daynty Devises, 1576
(Quoted in Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet), 1594-95
Is it any weakness, pray, to be wrought on by exquisite music?
to feel its wondrous harmonies searching the subtlest windings of
your soul, the delicate fibres of life where no memory can pene-
trate, and binding together your whole being, past and present, in
one unspeakable vibration; melting you in one moment with all
the tenderness, all the love, that has been scattered through the
toilsome years, concentrating in one emotion of heroic courage or
resignation all the hard-learned lessons of self-renouncing sympa-
thy, blending your present joy with past sorrow, and your present
sorrow with all your past joy?
George Eliot (1819-80)
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and
grief, that does not find relief in music-that does not make a
man sing or play the better.
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Musick is said to be the rejoysing
of the hart:
Musicke comforteth the mynde,
and feareth the enimie.
John Florio (?1553-1625)
First Fruites, 1578
And if there come the singers and the dancers-buy of their
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gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and
that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment
and food for your soul.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
The Prophet, 1923
194
The Universal Art
The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the
lyrical effusions of the SOU. and the funtasy of dreams.
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
The object of music is sound. Its purpose is to give pleasure and
excite various passions in us.
René Descartes (1596-1650)
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
be it laughter or years, feverish passion or religious ecstasy,
nothing, in the category of human feelings, is a stranger to music.
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
No other art tells us such forgotten secrets about ourselves
It is in the mightiest of all instincts, the primitive sex traditions of
the race before man was, that music is rooted.
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
0 Music
In your depth we deposit our hearts and souls.
Thou hast taught us to see with our ears
And hear with our hearts.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
To music's pipe the passions dance.
Matthew Green (1696-1737)
The Spleen, 1737
To picture, or rather to rouse the passions is the chief and final
aim of music.
Wilhelm Heinse (1746-1803)
Musikal Dialoge, 1805
The mellow touch of music most doth wound
The soul when it doth ruther sigh, then sound.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Hesperides, 1648
Metaphysics, Metaphor, and Miscellany
Music as Metaphor
333
f music far away.
So just, so small, yet in SO sweet a note,
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
It seemed the music melted in the throat.
The Pleasures of Hope, 1799
John Dryden (1631-1700)
The Flower and the Leaf
let's close and end
,
I see you have a singing face-a heavy, dull sonata face.
mpion (1567-1620)
George Farquhar (1678-1707)
The Inconstant, 1702
Music must be paramount: Prefer an uneven rhythm.
Anatole France (1844-1924)
ity's
Thomas Campion
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whis-
pering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a
reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Chaucer (1340-1400)
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
htes Tale, C. 1386
All the sounds of the earth are like music
iment.
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960)
Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," popular
Ad Atticum, 50 B.C.
song, 1943
fire, then extinguishes
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edificies
I Cocteau (1889-1963)
would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones; others to
have danced forth to light, fantastic airs.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64)
ongue;
The American Note-Books, January 4 1839
Cornwall (1787-1874)
elle and Fornarina
Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance.
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Double Ballade of Life and Fate
e Alighieri (1265-1321)
no, Canto XXI, c. 1300
There's not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord in mel-
ancholy.
the fiddle!
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
in Dobson (1840-1921)
Ode to Melancholy
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rument of science, and
[Italian] in which Charles the Fifth said that
Allegory dwells in a transparent palace. (L' allé-
f ideas.
he would choose to speak to his mistress?
gorie habite un palais diaphane.)
'ace to His Dictionary.
You already possess. and. I hope, take care not
LEMIERRE, Peinture. Sec. 3.
an the keys of Sciences.
to forget, that language [English] which he re-
8
ts the other.
served for his horse. You are absolutely master,
Moth: They have been at a great feast of
lères. Ch. 12.
too, of that language [French] in which he said
languages, and have stolen the scraps.
he would converse with men.
Costard: 0, they have lived long in the alms-
i thought.
LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters, 25 Jan., 1750.
basket of words.
$ of the Poets: Cowley.
1
SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost. Act v,
.D under WORD.
The language of the street is always strong.
SC. 1, 1. 40.
Garment of Thought:
What can describe the folly and emptiness of
9
r be, Language is the
scolding like the word jawing?
There is not chastity enough in language
, of Thought.
EMERSON, Journals, 1840.
Without offence to utter them.
us. Bk. i, ch. 11.
His language is painful and free.
SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing. Act
: and counterpart of
BRET HARTE, His Answer.
iv, SC. i, 1. 98.
2
Language was not powerful enough to describe
s, 1 Dec., 1841.
We shall never understand one another until
the infant phenomenon.
we reduce the language to seven words.
DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby. Ch. 23.
language; it gives the
KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam.
10
(L'accent est l'âme
That is not good language that all understand
Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world,
e le sentiment et la
not.
it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a
GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum.
nice derangement of epitaphs!
3
SHERIDAN, The Rivals. Act iii, SC. 3.
try dwells in the mind
Custom is the most certain mistress of lan-
n the tongue. (L'accent
guage, as the public stamp makes the current
III-Language: Greek and Latin
emeure dans l'esprit et
money.
11
IS le langage.)
BEN JONSON, Explorata: Consuetudo.
Beside 'tis known he could speak Greek
laximes. No. 342.
He strikes no coin, 'tis true, but coins new
As naturally as pigs squeak;
commend so much.
phrases,
That Latin was no more difficile
ir. Act ii, SC. 2, 1. 115.
And vends them forth as knaves vend gilded
Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.
counters,
BUTLER, Hudibras. Pt. i, canto i, 1. 51.
y of the human race.
Which wise men scorn and fools accept in pay-
erve of life running
A Babylonish dialect
ment.
connecting them into
UNKNOWN. (Quoted by Scott, The Monastery,
Which learned pedants much affect.
and advancing exist-
BUTLER, Hudibras. Pt. i, canto i, 1. 93.
as from an old play.)
4
He that is but able to express
ndale. Pt. i, sec. 11.
The Turkish language is like that: it says a
No sense at all in several languages,
lot in few words. (La langue turque est comme
Will pass for learneder than he that's known
or bull's-eye lantern
cela, elle dit beaucoup en peu de paroles.)
To speak the strongest reason in his own.
the vast cathedral of
MOLIÈRE, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv,
BUTLER, Satire Upon the Abuse of Learning.
SC. 4.
Pt. i, 1. 65.
Whitman.
5
I find sufficient store of stuff in our lan-
For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
in which a thousand
guage, but some defect of fashion.
Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,
ights have been safely
MONTAIGNE, Essays. Bk. iii, ch. 5.
To smatter French is meritorious.
:d.
6
BUTLER, Satire Upon Our Ridiculous Imitation
udy of Words: Intro-
I am a barbarian here, because I am under-
of the French, 1. 127.
stood by no one. (Barbarus hic ego sum, quia
12
non intelligor ulli.)
He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease
he faculty of speech,
OVID, Tristia. Bk. v, cleg. 10, 1. 37.
Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons
of God.
7
peas.
e lo His Dictionary.
Similes are like songs in love:
LIONEL CRANFIELD, Panegyric or Tom Coriate.
on of ideas, and if the
They much describe; they nothing prove.
13
nnot preserve an iden-
MATTHEW PRIOR, Alma. Canto iii, 1. 314.
The ancient languages are the scabbard which
t retain an identity of
Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
holds the mind's sword.
SHAKESPEARE, I Henry IV. Act i, SC. 2, 1. 88.
GOETHE, Table-Talk, 1814. A paraphrase from
: to His Dictionary.
Luther.
Oft on the dappled turf at ease
Apothegms
I sit, and play with similes,
He who is ignorant of foreign languages knows
Loose type of things through all degrees.
not his own.
he company that you
WORDSWORTH, To the Daisy. No. 2.
GOETHE, Kunst und Alterthum.
1. and unlarded with
No simile runs on all fours. (Nullum simile qua-
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly
tuor pedibus currit.)
a luxury.
elters, 22 Feb., 1748.
UNKNOWN. A Latin proverb, quoted by SIR
JOHN BRIGHT, Letter to J. Churton Collins,
make in the language
EDWARD COKE, Institutes.
1886.
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3. The Absurd
2
out. We have really no absent friends.
ELIZABETH BOWEN, The Death of the
3. THE ABSURD
Heart (1938), 2.2.
See also 4. Absurdity; 30. Alienation;
2. Our hours in love have wings; in ab-
315. Existentialism; 569. Meaning
sence crutches. COLLEY CIBBER, Xerxes
(1699), 4-3-
1. If life must not be taken too seriously -
3. It takes time for the absent to assume
then so neither must death. SAMUEL BUT-
their true shape in our thoughts. After death
LER (d. 1902), "Death," Note-Books (1912).
they take on a firmer outline and then cease
2. The absurd is born of the confrontation
to change. COLETTE, "The Captain,"
between the human call and the unreasona-
Earthly Paradise (1966), 1, ed. Robert
ble silence of the world. ALBERT CAMUS,
Phelps.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942).
4. How great love is, presence best trial
3. The absurd is sin without God. AL-
makes, / But absence tries how long this
BERT CAMUS, "An Absurd Reasoning," The
love will be. JOHN DONNE, "Valediction: Of
Myth of Sisyphus (1942), tr. Justin O'Brien.
the Book," Songs and Sonnets (1633).
4. Man is able to do what he is unable to
5. Those who are absent are always
imagine. His head trails a wake through the
wrong. ENGLISH PROVERB.
galaxy of the absurd. RENÉ CHAR, Leaves of
6. Absence sharpens love, presence
Hypnos, 227, in Hypnos Waking (1956), tr.
strengthens it. THOMAS FULLER, M.D.,
Jackson Mathews and others.
Gnomologia (1732), 755.
5. In a world where everything is ridicu-
7. When you part from your friend, you
lous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot
grieve not; / For that which you love most
unmask a mask. G. K. CHESTERTON, "On the
in him may be clearer in his absence, as the
Comic Spirit," Generally Speaking (1928).
mountain to the climber is clearer from the
6. Life is a jest, and all things show it; / I
plain. KAHLIL CIBRAN, "On Friendship,"
thought so once, but now I know it. JOHN
The Prophet (1923).
GAY, "My Own Epitaph," Fables (1727-38).
8. Sometimes, when one person is miss-
7. Unextinguished laughter shakes the
ing, the whole world seems depopulated.
skies. HOMER, Iliad (9th c. B.C.), 1.771, tr.
LAMARTINE, Premières méditations poé-
Alexander Pope.
tiques (1820), 1.
8. Life has to be given a meaning be-
9. Absence lessens ordinary passions and
cause of the obvious fact that it has no
augments great ones, as the wind blows
meaning. HENRY MILLER, "Creative
out a candle and makes a fire blaze. LA
:
Death," The Wisdom of the Heart (1941).
ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims (1665), tr.
9. Now humanity does not know where
Kenneth Pratt.
to go because no one is waiting for it: not
10. The absent shall not be made heir.
even God. ANTONIO PORCHIA, Voces
LATIN PROVERB.
(1968), tr. W. S. Merwin.
11. The fabric of my faithful love / No
10. Man's "progress" is but a gradual dis-
power shall dim or ravel / Whilst I stay
covery that his questions have no meaning.
here, but oh, my dear, / If I should ever
SAINT-EXUPÉRY, The Wisdom of the Sands
travel! EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, "To the
(1948), 39, tr. Stuart Gilbert.
Not Impossible Him."
11. The more absurd life is, the more in-
12. Absences are a good influence in love
supportable death is. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE,
and keep it bright and delicate. ROBERT
The Words (1964), 1.
LOUIS STEVENSON, title essay, 1, Virginibus
12. God made everything out of the void,
Puerisque (1881).
but the void shows through. PAUL VALÉRY,
13. Greater things are believed of those
Mauvaises pensées et autres (1941).
who are absent. TACITUS, Histories (A.D.
104-109), 2.83.
4. ABSURDITY
See also 3. The Absurd; 814. Ridicule
ABSTINENCE
See 859. Self-denial
1. There is no idea, no fact, which could
not be vulgarized and presented in a ludi-
121. Children
2. The life of children, as much as that of
breath of children! EURIPIDES, Medea
intemperate men, is wholly governed by
B.C.), tr. Rex Warner.
their desires. ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean
16. That child whose mother has n
Ethics (4th C. B.C.), 3.12, tr. J. A. K. Thomson.
smiled upon him is worthy neither of
3. Children have never been very good
table of the gods nor the couch of the
at listening to their elders, but they have
desses. ANATOLE FRANCE, The Crime
never failed to imitate them. JAMES BALD-
Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), 1, tr. Lafc
WIN, "Fifth Avenue, Uptown," Nobody
Hearn.
Knows My Name (1961).
17. Children are completely egoi
4. That energy which makes a child hard
they feel their needs intensely and st
to manage is the energy which afterward
ruthlessly to satisfy them. SIGMUND FRE
makes him a manager of life. HENRY WARD
"Dreams of the Death of Beloved Perso
BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The Interpretation of Dreams (1899),
(1887).
James Strachey.
5. One always hopes that the children -
18. Juvenile appraisals of other juven
that things will turn out better for them.
make up in clarity what they lack in chai
That's what children are. UGO BETTI, Goat
EDGAR z. FRIEDENBERG, "Emotional Dei
Island (1946), 3.2, ed. Gino Rizzo.
opment in Adolescence," The Vanish
6. There is no end to the violations com-
Adolescent (1959).
mitted by children on children, quietly
19. What children hear at home soon
talking alone. ELIZABETH BOWEN, The
abroad. THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomolo
House in Paris (1935), 1.2.
(1732), 5482.
7. Childish fantasy, like the sheath over
20. Your children are not your childre
the bud, not only protects but curbs the ter-
They are the sons and daughters of Li:
rible budding spirit, protects not only
longing for itself. KAHLIL GIBRAN,
innocence from the world, but the world
Children," The Prophet (1923).
from the power of innocence. ELIZABETH
21. One of the greatest pleasures of chi
BOWEN, The Death of the Heart (1938), 3.5.
hood is found in the mysteries which
8. Boys like romantic tales; but babies
hides from the skepticism of the elders, a
like realistic tales-because they find them
works up into small mythologies of its 0V
romantic. C. K. CHESTERTON, "The Logic of
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Poet
Elfland," Orthodoxy (1908).
the Breakfast Table (1872), 1.
9. Who takes the child by the hand, takes
22. A little girl without a doll is almost
the mother by the heart. DANISH PROVERB.
unfortunate and quite as impossible as
10. In the little world in which children
woman without children. VICTOR HUC
have their existence, whosoever brings
"Cosette," Les Misérables (1862), 3.8,
them up, there is nothing so finely per-
Charles E. Wilbour.
ceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
23. Children are remarkable for their
CHARLES DICKENS, Great Expectations
telligence and ardor, for their curiosi
(1860-61), S.
their intolerance of shams, the clarity a
11. There never was child so lovely but
ruthlessness of their vision. ALDOUS HU
his mother was glad to get him asleep.
LEY, "Vulgarity in Literature," Music
EMERSON, Journals, 1836.
Night (1931).
12. As soon as a child has left the room
24. Children need models rather tha
his strewn toys become affecting. EMERSON,
critics. JOSEPH JOUBERT, Pensées (184
Journals, 1839.
18.1, tr. Katharine Lyttelton.
13. We find delight in the beauty and
25. Children are the true connoisseui
happiness of children that makes the heart
What's precious to them has no price on
too big for the body. EMERSON, "Illusions,"
value. BEL KAUFMAN, television intervie
The Conduct of Life (1860).
1967.
14. Children are poor men's riches. ENG-
26. A child's nature is too serious a thin
LISH PROVERB.
to admit of its being regarded as a mere
15. How delicate the skin, how sweet the
pendage to another being. CHARLES LAM
171. Conscience
104
the victorious party. TACITUS, Histories
faults it has not strength enough to prevent
(A.D. 104-109), 2.77, tr. Alfred J. Church
it seldom has justice enough to accuse. OLI-
and William J. Brodribb.
VER GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield
19. To conquer with armsis to make only
(1766), 13.
a temporary conquest; to conquer the world
13. If we cannot be powerful and happy
by earning its esteem is to make a perma-
and prey on others, we invent conscience
nent conquest. WOODROW WILSON, address
and prey on ourselves. ELBERT HUBBARD
to Congress, Nov. 11, 1918.
The Philistine (1895-1915).
14. Our conscience is not the vessel of
eternal verities. It grows with our social
171. CONSCIENCE
and a new social condition means a radical
See also 403. Guilt; 598. Morality;
change in conscience. WALTER LIPPMANN,
S16. Right; 1063. Wrongdoing
"Some Necessary Iconoclasm," A Preface to
Politics (1914).
1. Conscience is the frame of character,
15. A state of conscience is higher than a
and love is the covering for it. HENRY
state of innocence. THOMAS MANN, in I Be-
WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth
lieve (1939), ed. Clifton Fadiman.
Pulpit (1887).
16. Conscience is the guardian in the in-
2. Conscience is thoroughly well-bred
dividual of the rules which the community
and soon leaves off talking to those who do
has evolved for its own preservation.
not wish to hear it. SAMUEL BUTLER
W. SOMERSET MAUCHAM, The Moon and
(d. 1902), Note-Books (1912).
Sixpence (1919), 14.
3. In many walks of life, a conscience is a
17. Conscience is the inner voice which
more expensive encumbrance than a wife
warns us that someone may be looking. H. L.
or a carriage. THOMAS DE QUINCEY,
MENCKEN, "Sententiae," A Book of Bur-
"Preliminary Confessions," Confessions of
lesques (1920).
an English Opium-Eater (1821-56).
18. The laws of conscience, which we
4. Nothing but man of all invenomed
pretend to be derived from nature, proceed
things / Doth work upon itself, with inborne
from custom. MONTAIGNE, "Of custom,
stings. JOHN DONNE, "Elegy on the Lady
Essays (1580-88), tr. Charles Cotton and
Marckham" (1609).
W. C. Hazlitt.
5. God has delegated himself to a million
19. There is only one way to achieve hap-
deputies. EMERSON, "Worship," The Con-
piness on this terrestrial ball, / And that is.to
duct of Life (1860).
have either a clear conscience, or none at
6. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
all. OGDEN NASH, "Inter-Office Memoran-
ENGLISH PROVERB.
dum," I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938).
7. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
20. It is only because man believes him-
ENGLISH PROVERB.
self to be free, not because he is free, that
S. The fact that human conscience re-
he experiences remorse and pricks of con-
mains partially infantile throughout life is
science. NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Hu-
the core of human tragedy. ERIK H. ERIK-
man (1878), 39, tr. Helen Zimmern.
SON, Childhood and Society (1950), 7.
21. The bite of conscience teaches men
9. There is one thing alone / that stands
to bite. NIETZSCHE, "On the Pitying," Thus
the brunt of life throughout its course, / a
Spoke Zarathustra (1883-92), 2, tr. Walter
quiet conscience. EURIPIDES, Hippolytus
Kaufmann.
(428 B.C.), tr. David Grene.
22. Don't you see that that blessed con-
10. A good conscience is the best
science of yours is nothing but other people,
divinity. THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomo-
inside you? LUIGI PIRANDELLO, Each in
logia (1732), 141.
His Own Way (1924), 1, tr. Arthur Living
11. Conscience is a just but a weak judge.
ston.
Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its
23. We believe that humanness consists
judgment. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "A Story of a
in what we call conscience, in that courage,
Friend," Thoughts and Meditations (1960),
if you wish, which we have shown on one
tr. Anthony R. Ferris.
single occasion rather than in the cowardice
12. Conscience is a coward, and those
which on many occasions has counselled
361. Freedom, Individual
230
6. Freedom has a thousand charms to
dom. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "On Freedom, The
show, / That slaves, howe's contented,
Prophet (1923).
never know. WILLIAM COWESH Table Talk
20. To know how to free oneself is noth
(1782), 260.
ing; the arduous thing is to know what to do
7. I only ask to be free. The butterflies
with one's freedom. ANDRÉ GIDE, The Im
are free. CHARLES DICKENN Deak House
moralist (1902), 1.1, tr. Dorothy Bussy.
(1852), 6.
21. He only earns his freedom and exist-
I 8. Everything that is really areat and in-
ence who daily conquers them anew. GOE-
spiring is created by the incividual who can
THE, Faust (1832), 2.
labor in freedom. EINSTEIN, Dut of My
22. The liberty of others extends mine to
Later Years (1950), 7.
infinity. Graffito written during French stu-
9. Liberty is a different kind at pain from
dent revolt, May 1968.
prison. T. S. ELIOT, The Family Reunion
23. We prate of freedom; we are in
(1939), 2.2.
deadly fear of life. LEARNED HAND, speech,
10. If you cannot be free. & as free as
Harvard Law School, March 20, 1930.
you can. EMERSON, Journals 2836.
24. Liberty is the only true riches: of all
11. Though we love goodboss and not
the rest we are at once the masters and
stealing, yet also we love freedom and not
the slaves. WILLIAM HAZLITT, "Common--
preaching. EMERSON, Journais 1S42.
places;" The Round Table (1817), 2.
12. A part of Fate is the freedom of man.
25. The history of the world is none other
Forever wells up the impulse of choosing
than the progress of the consciousness of
and acting in his soul. EMESSON, "Fate,"
freedom. HEGEL, introduction to Philosophy
The Conduct of Life (1860).
of History (1832), tr. John Sibree.
13. Wild liberty breeds inces conscience;
26. Unless a man has the talents to make
natures with great impulses have great re-
something of himself, freedom is an irksome
sources, and return from far. EMERSON,
burden. ERIC HOFFER, The True Believer]
"Power," The Conduct of Life (1860).
(1951), 2.5.26.
14. What is it that every seeks? To
27. There can be no real freedom with-
be secure, to be happy, to do what he
out the freedom to fail. ERIC HOFFER, The
pleases without restraint and without com-
Ordeal of Change (1964), 12.
pulsion. EPICTETUS, Discourses (2nd c.), 4.1,
:
28.. Freedom is a condition of mind, and
tr. Thomas W. Higginson.
the best way to secure it is to breed it. EL
15. Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-
BERT HUBBARD, The Note Book (1927).
sufficiency. EPICURUS, "Vatican Sayings"
29. Freedom is the supreme good - free
(3rd c. B.C.), 77, in Letters, Principal Doc-
dom from self-imposed limitation. ELBERT
trines, and Vatican Sayings, ir. Russel M.
HUBBARD, The Note Book (1927).
Geer.
30. It is better to die on your feet than to:
16. The American feels so rich in his op-
live on your knees. DOLORES IBARRURI,
portunities for free expression that he often
speech in Paris, Sept. 3, 1936.
no longer knows what he is fire from. Nei-
31. What does any man want? To be left
ther does he know where he is not free; he
alone with his life, and have some hope of
does not recognize his native autocrats
making that life what he wants it to be.
when he sees them. ERIX H. ERIKSON,
LE ROI JONES, "LeRoi Jones Talking,
Childhood and Society (1950) S.
Home (1966).
17. Whilst we strive / To live most free,
32. A man is either free or he is not.
we're caught in our own toils. JOHN FORD,
There cannot be any apprenticeship for
The Lover's Melancholy (1629), 1.3.
freedom. LE ROI JONES, "Tokenism: 300
18. The moment the slave resolves that
Years for Five Cents," Home (1966).
he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall.
33. The most powerful single force in the
He frees himself and shows the way to oth-
world today is neither Communism nor
ers. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI, Non-Violence in
guided missile it is man's eternal desire
Peace and War (1948), 2.10.
to be free and independent. JOHN F.
19. Your freedom when it loses its fetters
KENNEDY, address, Washington, D.C., July
becomes itself the fetter of a greater free-
2, 1957.
382. Gifts and Giving
nothing is so gentle as real strength
W. SOCKMAN, New York Mirror
381. GHOSTS
worst to receiving one. EMERSON, Journals,
Breeding;
1952.
See also 447. Illusion; 687. Phantasy;
1836.
946 Supernatural
8. We do not quite forgive a giver. The
hand that feeds us is in some danger of
ghbred in
378. GEOGRAPHY
Chost, n. The outward and visible sign
being bitten. EMERSON, "Gifts," Essays:
ent, frater-
See also 138. Climate
an inward fear. AMBROSE BIERCE, The
Second Series (1844).
cepts the
1. Boundary, n. In political geograpt
of Devil's Dictionary (1881-1911).
9. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
ESS, "The
imaginary line between two nations
minclined to think we are all ghosts
EMERSON, "Gifts," Essays: Second Series
ce of the
rating the imaginary rights of one
every one of us. It's not just what we in-
(1844).
imaginary rights of the other.
from our mothers and fathers that
10. There is no benefit in the gifts of a
:he badge
BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary (188)
Launts ùs. It's all kinds of old defunct theo-
bad man. EURIPIDES, Medea (431 B.C.), tr.
y. EMER-
2. Mountains interposed / Make
all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and
Rex Warner.
fe (1860).
of nations who had else, / Like
ries, shings like that. HENRIK IBSEN, Ghosts
11. A gift, with a kind countenance, is a
neself, all
drops, been mingled into one.
(SS1).
double present. THOMAS FULLER, M.D.,
MURRAY
COWPER, "The Timepiece," The
Ghosts remind me of men's smart
Gnomologia (1732), 131.
America
(1785), 1.
crack about women, you can't live with
12. He that gives to be seen would never
3. The importance of geology
them and can't live without them. EUGENE
relieve a man in the dark. THOMAS FULLER,
entleman
to
raphy is that, without geology,
NEILL, Strange Interlude (1928), 3.
M.D., Gnomologia (1732), 2115.
ets pain.
would have no place to put itself. ART
Phantoms in general are nothing more
13. That is the bitterness of a gift, that it
of a Uni-
than trifling disorders of the spirit: images
deprives us of our liberty. THOMAS FULLER,
LETTER, A Child's Garden of Misinfore
tion (1965), 7.
we cannot contain within the bounds of
M.D., Gnomologia (1732), 4359.
time to
deep LUIGI PIRANDELLO, Henry IV (1922),
14. Avarice hoards itself poor; charity
ing you
tr. Edward Storer.
gives itself rich. GERMAN PROVERB.
n't easy.
379. GERMANS
5. He who does not fill his world with
15. It is well to give when asked, but it is
ure of
1. We Germans fear God, but
phantoms remains alone. ANTONIO-
better to give unasked, through understand-
ay.
FORCHIA, Voces (1968), tr. W. S. Merwin.
ing. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "On Giving," The
else in the world. OTTO VON BISMA
deeds is
Prophet (1923).
speech in the Reichstag, Feb. 6, 1888
Faerie
16. We are thankful for good-will rather
2. The German's wit is in his
382. GIFTS AND GIVING
than for services, for the motive than the
GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Pruders
See also 72. Beggars; 373. Generosity;
quantum of favour received. WILLIAM HAZ-
(1651).
130. Humanitarianism; 517. Kindness;
LITT, "On the Spirit of Obligations," The
3.
Everything ponderous, viscous
569. Misers; 639. Obligation; 780. Receiving;
Plain Speaker (1826).
solemnly
clumsy,
all long-winded and
SSI Services; 887. Sharing; 929. Stinginess
17. We probably have a greater love for
ing types of style are developed in
those we support than those who support us.
variety
among
Germans.
NIETZ
of the
What you get free costs too much. JEAN
Our: vanity carries more weight than our
Beyond Good and Evil (1886), 28, tr.
We
ANOUILH, The Lark (1955), 1, adapted by
self-interest. ERIC HOFFER, The Passionate
serpent
Kaufmann.
Lillian Hellman.
iculous
State of Mind (1954), 202.
4. Whenever the literary Germande
To give and then not feel that one has
d very
18. There is sublime thieving in all giv-
into a sentence, that is the last you are
given is the very best of all ways of giving.
ing. Someone gives us all he has and we are
PH AD-
to see of him till he emerges on the
MAX BEERBOHM, "Hosts and Guests," And
his. ERIC HOFFER, The Passionate State of
side of his Atlantic with his verb
Even Now (1920).
wer of
Mind (1954), 236.
mouth. MARK TWAIN, A Connecticut
3 It is more blessed to give than to re-
19. What with your friend you nobly
se per-
kee in King Arthur's Court (1889), 22
ceive. Bible, Acts 20:35.
"Hera-
share, / At least you rescue from your heir.
5. The great virtues of the German
Every good gift and every perfect gift
HORACE, Odes (23-c. 15 B.C.), 4.7.
ple have created more evils than idler
from above. Bible, James 1:17.
20. Let him that desires to see others
ANTES,
ever did vices. PAUL VALÉRY, "La Crise
5 man whose leg has been cut off does
r Mot-
happy, make haste to give while his gift can
l'esprit, 1re lettre,"
Variété (1924-44)
not value a present of shoes. CHUANG TZU,
be enjoyed, and remember that every mo-
Works (4th-3rd C. B.C.), 55.1, tr. Lin Yutang.
ment of delay takes away something from
mice.
380.
6. Riches may enable us to confer fa-
GERMS
the value of his benefaction. SAMUEL JOHN-
yours, but to confer them with propriety
d gen-
SON, The Idler (1758-60), 43.
1. Microbes is a vigitable, an' ivry
and grace requires a something that riches
de an
21. Bounty always receives part of its
like a conservatory full iv millyons iv
cannot give. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, La-
value from the manner in which it is be-
1258),
potted plants. FINLEY PETER DUN
con (1825), 1.455.
stowed. SAMUEL JOHNSON, letter to the earl
"Christian Science, Mr. Dooley's Opin
7. How painful to give a gift to any per-
S, and
of Bute, July 20, 1762, quoted in Boswell's
(1901).
son of sensibility, or of equality! It is next
Life of Samuel Johnson.
248
249
385. God
e. SAMUEL BUTLER (d. 1902), "Elemen-
Journals, 1836.
38. The First Cause worked automati-
Morality," Note-Books (1912).
God's merits are so transcendent that
27. The only money of God is God. He
cally like a somnambulist, and not reflec-
pays never with any thing less, or any thing
tively like a sage. THOMAS HARDY, Jude the
not surprising his faults should be in
nable proportion. SAMUEL BUTLER (d.
else. EMERSON, "Friendship," Essays: First
Obscure (1895), 6.3.
), "Rebelliousness," Note-Books (1912).
Series (1841).
39. God is day and night, winter and
28. Heaven always bears some proportion
summer, war and peace, satiety and want.
Theist and Atheist: The fight be-
to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a
HERACLITUS, Fragments (c. 500 B.C.), 121,
n them is as to whether God shall be
d God or shall have some other name.
icannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of
tr. Philip Wheelwright.
the merchants a merchant. EMERSON,
40. If any man obeys the gods, they listen
JEL BUTLER (d. 1902), "Rebellious-
Note-Books (1912).
"Worship," The Conduct of Life (1860).
to him also. HOMER, Iliad (9th C. B.C.), 1.218,
The certainty of a God giving mean-
29. If god is truly god, he is perfect, /
tr. Richmond Lattimore.
) life far surpasses in attractiveness the
lacking nothing. EURIPIDES, Heracles (c.
41. To see so much misery everywhere, I
422 B.C.), tr. William Arrowsmith.
suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up
y to behave badly with impunity. AL-
30. The way of God is complex, he is
appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch.
CAMUS, "The Absurd Man," The Myth
yphus (1942), tr. Justin O'Brien
hard / for us to predict. He moves the
He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose
Is there no God, then, but at best
pieces and they come / somehow into a
credit is low, gives a ball. VICTOR HUGO,
kind of order. EURIPIDES, Helen (412 B.C.),
"Saint Denis," Les Misérables (1862), 12.2,
sentee God, sitting idle, ever since
tr. Richmond Lattimore.
tr. Charles E. Wilbour.
rst Sabbath, at the outside of his Uni-
? THOMAS CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
31. I am waiting / for them to prove / that
42. An honest God is the noblest work of
God is really American. LAWRENCE FER-
man. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, The Gods
-34), 2.7.
LINGHETTI, "I Am Waiting," A Coney Is-
(1872).
Though God's attributes are equal,
land of the Mind (1958).
43. God has been replaced, as he has all
S mercy is more attractive and pleas-
32. The skirts of the gods / Drag in our
over the West, with respectability and air
our eyes than his justice. CERVANTES,
mud. We feel the touch / And take it to be a
conditioning. LE ROI JONES, "What Does
Quixote (1605-15), 2.4.42, tr. Peter
kiss. CHRISTOPHER FRY, Thor, with Angels
Nonviolence Mean?" Home (1966).
ux and John Ozell.
(1948)
44. God is but a word invented to explain
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
20.33. No one has the capacity to judge
the world. LAMARTINE, "Le Tombeau
ANTES, Don Quixote (1605-15), 2.4.55,
God. We are drops in that limitless ocean
d'une mère," Nouvelles harmonies po-
er Motteux and John Ozell.
Fof mercy. MOHANDAS K. GANDHI, Non-
étiques et religieuses (1832).
There cannot be a personal God with-
Violence in Peace and War (1948), 2.321.
45. God is what man finds that is divine
bessimistic religion. As soon as there is
34. That which Love begets, / That
in himself. God is the best way man can
onal God he is a disappointing God.
X
which Rebellion creates, / That which
behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and
CONNOLLY, The Unquiet Grave
Freedom rears, / Are three manifestations of
the farthest point to which man can stretch
1.
God. / And God is the expression / Of the
himself. MAX LERNER, "Seekers and Los-
God is for men and religion for
intelligent Universe. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "Vi-
ers," The Unfinished Country (1959), 5.
n. JOSEPH CONRAD, Nostromo (1904).
sion," Thoughts and Meditations (1960), tr.
His will, that binds our own, is peace
46. "Tis heaven alone that is given away,
Anthony R. Ferris.
DANTE, "Paradiso," 3, The Divine
/ "Tis only God may be had for the asking.
ly (c. 1300-21), tr. Lawrence Grant
35. God lies ahead. I convince myself and
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, prelude to part 1,
constantly repeat to myself that: He de-
"The Vision of Sir Launfal" (1848).
pends on us. It is through us that God is
God is indeed a jealous God / He
47. If God is Will / And Will is well /
bear to see / That we had rather not
achieved. ANDRÉ GIDE, Journals, 1947, tr.
Then what is ill? / God still? / Dew tell!
Justin O'Brien.
im / But with each other play. EMILY
ARCHIBALD MAC LEISH, JB (1958), 5.
36. I believe in the gods. Or rather I be-
48. God is the immemorial refuge of the
ISON, Poems (c. 1862-86).
[f every gnat that flies were an
lieve that I believe in the gods. But I don't
incompetent, the helpless, the miserable.
believe that they are great brooding pres-
gel, all that could but tell me that
They find not only sanctuary in His arms,
ences watching over us; I believe they are
S a God; and the poorest worm that
but also a kind of superiority, soothing to
completely absent-minded. JEAN GIRAU-
tells me that. JOHN DONNE, Sermons,
their macerated egos; He will set them
1628.
DOUX, Electra (1937), 1, tr. Phyllis La Farge
above their betters. H. L. MENCKEN,
with Peter H. Judd.
Do not speak of God much. After a
Minority Report (1956), 35.
37. Everyone, whether he is self-denying
ttle conversation on the highest na-
49. It takes a long while for a naturally
or self-indulgent, is seeking after the
ought deserts us and we run into for-
trustful person to reconcile himself to the
Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of
idea that after all God will not help him.
EMERSON, Journals, 1836.
love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.
God is our name for the last generali-
H. L. MENCKEN, Minority Report (1956),
HÂFIZ, ghazals from the Divan (14th c.), 8,
to which we can arrive. EMERSON,
194.
tr. Justin Huntly McCarthy.
50. Only this I know, / That one celestial
388. Good and Evil
252
15. Beauty, Good, and Knowledge are
Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), 250, tr. Jo-
three sisters / That doat upon each other,
seph Jacobs.
friends to man, / Living together under the
9. There is no such thing in man's nature
same roof, / And never can be sundered
as a settled and full resolve either for good
without tears. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON,
or evil, except at the very moment of execu
"To-" (1832).
tion. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, "Fancy's
16. Everyone places his good where he
Show Box," Twice-Told Tales (1837).
can and has as much of it as he can, in his
10. Goodness without wisdom always.
own way. VOLTAIRE, "Good," Philosophical
accomplishes evil. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN,
Dictionary (1764).
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), 36.
17. A good is never productive of evil but
11. Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubi
when it is carried to a culpable excess, in
ous scales, / And the good suffers while the
which case it completely ceases to be a
bad prevails. HOMER, Odyssey (9th c. B.C.),
good. VOLTAIRE, "Property," Philosophical
6.229, tr. Alexander Pope.
Dictionary (1764).
12. Almost all the moral good which is
left among us is the apparent effect of physi
cal evil. SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler
388. GOOD AND EVIL
(1758-60), 89.
See also 305. Evil; 387. The Good;
13. We cannot freely and wisely choose
391. Goodness
the right way for ourselves unless we know
both good and evil. HELEN KELLER, My
1. Good and evil lie close together. Seek
Religion (1927).
no artistic unity in character. LORD ACTON,
14. We often do good in order to accom-
postscript, letter to Mandell Creighton,
plish evil with impunity. LA ROCHE-
April 5, 1887.
FOUCAULD, Maxims (1665), tr. Kenneth
2. It's wiser being good than bad; / It's
Pratt.
safer being meek than fierce: / It's fitter
15. The betrothed of good is evil, / The
being sane than mad. ROBERT BROWNING,
betrothed of life is death, / The betrothed of,
"Apparent Failure," Dramatis Personae
love is divorce. MALAY PROVERB.
(1864), 7.
16. Evil can be condoned only if in the
3. White shall not neutralize the black,
beyond it is compensated by good and God.
nor good / Compensate bad in man, absolve
himself needs immortality to vindicate his
him so: / Life's business being just the terri-
ways to man. W. SOMERSET MAUCHAM, The
ble choice. ROBERT BROWNING, "The
Summing Up (1938), 70.
Pope," The Ring and the Book (1868-69).
17. Life in itself is neither good nor evil;
4. Let no man presume to think that he
it is the scene of good or evil, as you make
can devise any plan of extensive good, un-
it. MONTAIGNE, "That to study philosophy
alloyed and unadulterated with evil.
is to learn to die," Essays (1580-88), tr.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon (1825), 1.7.
Charles Cotton and W. C. Hazlitt.
5. The meaning of good and bad, of bet-
18. One should seek for the salutary in
ter and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
the unpleasant; if it is there, it is after all'
EMERSON, Journals, 1836.
nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in
6. Good and bad may not be dissevered; /
the pleasant; if it is there, it is after all poi
There is, as there should be, a commingling.
son. Panchatantra (c. 5th c.), 1, tr. Franklin
EURIPIDES, quoted in Plutarch's "Content-
Edgerton.
ment," Moralia (c. A.D.100), tr. Moses Hadas.
19. If we could see all the evil that may
7. Even as the holy and the righteous
spring from good, what should we do?
cannot rise beyond the highest which is in
LUIGI PIRANDELLO, Six Characters in
each one of you, so the wicked and the
Search of an Author (1921), 1, tr. Edward
weak cannot fall lower than the lowest
Storer.
which is in you also. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "On
20. The omission of good is no less repre-
Crime and Punishment," The Prophet
hensible than the commission of evil. PLU-
(1923).
TARCH, "Contentment," Moralia (c. A.D.
8. Nothing is good for him for whom
100), tr. Moses Hadas.
nothing is bad. BALTASAR GRACIÁN, The
21. Saints cannot arise where there have
407. Happiness
21. One moment may with bliss repay /
:35. To fill the hour, - that is happiness
Unnumbered hours of pain. THOMAS CAMP-
fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a
BELL, "The Ritter Bann" (1824).
pentance or an approval. EMERSON,
22. To be happy, we must not be too con-
perience, Essays: Second Series (1844).
cerned with others. ALBERT CAMUS, The
36. It is impossible to live a pleasant life
Fall (1956).
without living wisely and well and justly
23. You are forgiven for your happiness
and it is impossible to live wisely and well
and your successes only if you generously
and justly without living pleasantly. EPICU
consent to share them. ALBERT CAMUS, The
RUS (3rd C. B.C.), quoted in Diogenes Laer
Fall (1956).
tius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent
24. It seldom happens that any felicity
Philosophers (3rd C. A.D.), tr. R. D. Hicks.
comes so pure as not to be tempered and
37. Of mortals there is no one who
allayed by some mixture of sorrow. CER-
happy. / If wealth flows in upon one, one
VANTES, Don Quixote (1605-15), 1.4.14, tr.
may be perhaps / Luckier than one's neigh.
Peter Motteux and John Ozell.
bor, but still not happy. EURIPIDES, Medea
25. Happiness is like a sunbeam, which
(431 B.C.), tr. Rex Warner.
the least shadow intercepts. CHINESE PROV-
38. Happiness is brief. / It will not stay.
ERB.
God batters at its sails. EURIPIDES, Orestes
26. Can you learn to live? Yes, if you are
(408 B.C.), tr. William Arrowsmith.
not happy. There is no virtue in felicity.
39. These kind of hair-breadth missings
COLETTE, "Literary Apprenticeship: 'Clau-
of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
dine,' Earthly Paradise (1966), 2, ed.
HENRY FIELDING, Tom Jones (1749), 13.2.
Robert Phelps.
40. A great obstacle to happiness is to an
27. Happiness, that grand mistress of the
ticipate too great a happiness. FONTENELLE
ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us
Du Bonheur (1687).
through all its mazes and meanderings, but
41. Human felicity is produced not SO
leads none of us by the same route.
much by great pieces of good fortune that
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon (1825),
seldom happen as by little advantages that
2.109.
occur every day. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
28. Happiness lies in the fulfillment of
Autobiography (1791), 2.
the spirit through the body. CYRIL CON-
42. What we call happiness in the strict
NOLLY, The Unquiet Grave (1945), 1.
est sense comes from the (preferably sud
29. Happiness depends, as Nature shows,
den) satisfaction of needs which have been
/ Less on exterior things than most suppose.
dammed up to a high degree. SIGMUND
WILLIAM COWPER, Table Talk (1782), 246:
FREUD, Civilization and Its Discontents
30. Illusory joy is often worth more than
(1930), 2, tr. James Strachey.
genuine sorrow. DESCARTES, Traité des pas-
43. Modern man's happiness consists in
sions de l'âme (1650).
the thrill of looking at the shop windows,
31. Eden is that old-fashioned House /
and in buying all that he can afford to buy,
We dwell in every day / Without suspecting
either for cash or on installments. ERICH
our abode / Until we drive away. EMILY
FROMM, The Art of Loving (1956), 1.
DICKINSON, Poems (c. 1862-86).
44. Happiness makes up in height for
32. True joy is the earnest which we
what it lacks in length. ROBERT FROST,
have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul,
poem title (1942).
and therefore should be laid in a safe place,
45. He is happy that knoweth not himself
and nothing in this world is safe to place
to be otherwise. THOMAS FULLER, M.D.,
it in. JOHN DONNE, Sermons, No. 28,
Gnomologia (1732), 1918.
(1624-25?).
46. No man can be happy without a
33. Happiness does not lie in happiness,
friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is
but in the achievement of it. DOSTOEVSKY,
unhappy. THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomo-
A Diary of a Writer (1876), 3, January.
logia (1732), 3593.
34. Present joys are more to flesh and
47. Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
blood, / Than a dull prospect of a distant
And the selfsame well from which your
good. JOHN DRYDEN, The Hind and the Pan-
laughter rises was oftentimes filled with
ther (1687), 11.1658.
your tears. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "On Joy and
366
367
548. Love
Sermons, No. 21, 1623.
45. Love all love of other sights controls,
59. Love compels cruelty / To those who
terprise, which is started with such tremen-
And makes one little room an everywhere
do not understand love. T. S. ELIOT, The
dous hopes and expectations, and yet which
JOHN DONNE, "The Good-Morrow" (₁6₃₃),
Family Reunion (1939), 2.2.
fails so. regularly, as love. ERICH FROMM,
46. Love is a growing, 'or full constant
60. No love can be bound by oath or
The of Loving (1956), 1-.
light; / And his first minute, after noon, is
covenant to secure it against a higher love.
76. Immature love says: "I love you be-
night. JOHN DONNE, "A Lecture upon the
EMERSON, "Circles," Essays: First Series
cause I need you." Mature love says: "I
Shadow," Songs and Sonnets (1633).
(1841).
need you because I love you." ERICH
47. Love, all alike, no season knows, nor
61. He that loveth maketh his own the
FROMM, The Art of Loving (1956), 2.
clime, / Nor hours, age, months, which are
grandeur he loves. EMERSON, "Compensa-
77. It seems that it is madder never to
the rags of time. JOHN DONNE, "The Sun
'tion," Essays: First Series (1841).
abandon one's self than often to be in-
Rising," Songs and Sonnets (1633).
62. Love is the bright foreigner, the for-
fatuated; better to be wounded, a captive
48. I am two fools, I know, for loving, and
eign self. EMERSON, Journals, 1849.
and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
or saying so. JOHN DONNE, "The Triple
63. They love too much that die for love.-
MARGARET FULLER, Summer on the Lakes
Fool," Songs and Sonnets (1633).
ENGLISH PROVERB.
(1844), 5.
49. Love built on beauty, soon as beauty,
64. Love must not touch the marrow of
78. Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be
1635). lies. JOHN DONNE, Elegy 2, The Anagram"
the soul. / Our affections must be breakable
hid. THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomologia
chains that we / can cast them off or tighten
(1732), 3298.
50. Being got it [love] is a treasure sweet,
them. EURIPIDES, Hippolytus (428 B.C.), tr.
79. There is more pleasure in loving than
Which to defend, is harder than to get: /
David Grene.
in being beloved. THOMAS FULLER, M.D.,
and ought not be profaned on either part, /
65. Love is all we have, the only way /
Gnomologia (1732), 4900.
'or though 'tis got by chance, 'tis kept by
that each can help the other. EURIPIDES,
8o. What we call love is the desire to
Orestes (408 B.C.), tr. William Arrowsmith.
rt. JOHN DONNE, Elegy 17, The Expostu-
awaken and to keep awake in another's
tion" (1635).
66. To love nothing is not to live; to love
body, heart and mind, the responsibility of
51. Where there is no love there is no
but feebly is to languish rather than live.
flattering, in our place, the self of which
ense either. DOSTOEVSKY, Notes from Un-
FÉNELON, À un homme du monde (1699).
we are not very sure. PAUL GÉRALDY,
erground (1864), 2.4, tr. Constance Garnett.
67. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, /
L'Homme et l'amour (1951).
52. With love one can live even without
Pain of love lasts a lifetime. JEAN PIERRE
81. We must resemble each other a little
appiness. DOSTOEVSKY, Notes from Under-
CLARIS DE FLORIAN, Célestine (1842).
in order to understand each other, but we
round (1864), 2.4, tr. Constance Garnett.
68. Love is a tyrant, / Resisted. JOHN
must be a little different to love each other.
53. In order to love simply, it is necessary
FORD, The Lover's Melancholy (1629), 1.3.
PAUL GÉRALDY, L'Homme et l'amour
know how to show love. DOSTOEVSKY,
69. Love is a great force in private life; it
(1951).
Bookishness and Literacy," Polnoye So-
is indeed the greatest of all things; but love
82. Love knows hidden paths. GERMAN
aniye Sochinyeni (Complete Collected
in public affairs does not work. E. M.
PROVERB.
'orks, 1895), V. 9.
FORSTER, "Tolerance," Two Cheers for
83. Even as love crowns you so shall he
54. Pains of love be sweeter far / Than all
Democracy (1951).
crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so
her pleasures are. JOHN DRYDEN, Tyrannic
70. Love makes the time pass. Time
is he for your pruning. KAHLIL GIBRAN,
we (1669), 4.1.
makes love pass. FRENCH PROVERB.
"On Love," The Prophet (1923).
55. Heaven be thanked, we live in such
71. Try to reason about love, and you will
84. Love is the irresistible desire to be
age, / When no man dies for love, but on
lose your reason. FRENCH PROVERB.
desired irresistibly. LOUIS GINSBERG, read-
e stage. JOHN DRYDEN, Epilogue to
72. Erotic love begins with separateness,
ing at St. Mark's in the Bowery, April 1,
thridates (1678).
and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins
1968.
56. Love reckons hours for months, and
with oneness, and leads to separateness.
85. Agreement is never reached in love.
ys for years; / And every little absence is
ERICH FROMM, The Sane Society (1955), 3.
The life of a wife and husband who love
73. Love is union with somebody, or
each other is never at rest. Whether the
age. JOHN DRYDEN, Amphitryon (1690),
something, outside oneself, under the con-
marriage is true or false, the marriage por-
57. Love, love, love. All th' wurruld is
dition of retaining the separateness and in-
tion is the same: elemental discord. JEAN
e. Soft an' sweet an' sticky it covers th'
tegrity of one's own self. ERICH FROMM,
GIRAUDOUX, Tiger at the Gates (1935), 2, tr.
be. FINLEY PETER DUNNE, "On the
The Sane Society (1955), 3.
Christopher Fry.
wer of Music," Mr. Dooley On Making a
74. Love is often nothing but a favorable
86. A life without love, without the pres-
ll (1919).
exchange between two people who get the
ence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere
;8. The richest love is that which sub-
most of what they can expect, considering
magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after
:s to the arbitration of time.
their value on the personality market.
LAWRENCE
slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it
RRELL, Clea (1960), 3.2.
ERICH FROMM, The Sane Society (1955), 5.
back to make haste for the next. GOETHE,
75. There is hardly any activity, any en-
Elective Affinities (1809), 27.
376
377
555. Madness
Lovers know what they want, but not
cess of comfort. CHARLES DICKENS, Barnaby
they need. PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Moral
Rudge (1841), 7.
igs (ist c. B.C.), 21, tr. Darius Lyman.
2. Our expense is almost all for conform-
555. MADNESS
The lover is a monotheist who knows
ity. It is for cake that we all run in debt.
-See also 620. Neurosis; 836. Sanity
ther people worship different gods but
EMERSON, Journals, 1840.
ot himself imagine that there could be
3. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing
1. We are all born mad. Some remain so.
gods. THEODOR REIK, Of Love and
that enters the house a guest, and then
SAMUEL BECKETT, Waiting for Godot
(1957), 1.3.1.
becomes a host, and then a master. KAHLIL
(1952), 2.
The lover knows much more about
GIBRAN, "On Houses," The Prophet (1923).
2. "Mad" is a term we use to describe a
ute good and universal beauty than
4. Even luxury finds a zest in change.
man who is obsessed with one idea and
ogician or theologian, unless the latter,
HORACE, Odes (23-c. 15 B.C.), 3.29.
nothing else. UGO BETTI, Struggle Till
be lovers in disguise. GEORGE SAN-
5.
Luxury
is a way of / being ignorant,
Dawn (1949), 1, tr. G. H. McWilliam.
NA, The Life of Reason: Reason in So-
comfortable / An approach to the open mar-
3. All of us are mad. If it weren't for the
(1905-06), 1.
ket / of least information. Where theories /
fact every one of us is slightly abnormal,
They say all lovers swear more per-
Can thrive, under heavy tarpaulins / with-
there wouldn't be any point in giving each
nce than they are able and yet reserve
out being cracked by ideas. LE ROI JONES,
person a separate name. UCO BETTI, The
ility that they never perform, vowing
"Political Poem," The Dead Lecturer (1964).
Fugitive (1953), 2, tr. G. H. McWilliam.
than the perfection of ten and dis-
6. They must know but little of mankind
4. Each of us keeps, battened down in-
ing less than the tenth part of one.
who can imagine that, after they have been
side himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impos-
ESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida (1601-
once seduced by luxury, they can ever re-
sible socially, but full-scale-and it's the
2.91.
nounce it. ROUSSEAU, A Discourse on Politi-
knockings and batterings we sometimes
The anger of lovers renews their love.
cal Economy (1758), tr. C. D. H. Cole.
hear in each other that keep our intercourse
NCE, The Woman of Andros (166 B.C.).
7. Luxury either comes of riches or
from utter banality. ELIZABETH BOWEN,
makes them necessary; it corrupts at once
The Death of the Heart (1938), 3.6.
rich and poor, the rich by possession and
5. If a sane dog fights a mad dog, it's the
LOWER CLASS
the poor by covetousness. ROUSSEAU, The
sane dog's ear that is bitten off. Burmese
See 675. The People
Social Contract (1762), 3.4, tr. C. D. H. Cole.
Proverbs (1962), 436, ed. Hla Pe.
8. What nature requires is obtainable,
6. The wily lunatic is lost if through the
and within easy reach. It's for the superflu-
narrowest crack he allows a sane eye to peer
553. LOYALTY
ous we sweat. SENECA, Letters to Lucilius
into his locked universe and thus profane it.
also 178. Constancy and Inconstancy;
(ist c.), 4.11, tr. E. Phillips Barker.
COLETTE, "Freedom," Earthly Paradise
489. Integrity
9. Men first feel necessity, then look for
(1966), 2, ed. Robert Phelps.
utility, next attend to comfort, still later
7. There is less harm to be suffered in
Loyalty is still the same, / Whether it
amuse themselves with pleasure, thence
being mad among madmen than in being
lose the game; / True as a dial to the
grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad
sane all by oneself. DENIS DIDEROT, Supple-
Although it be not shined upon. SAM-
and waste their substance. GIAMBATTISTA
ment to Bougainville's "Voyage" (1796).
UTLER (d. 1680), Hudibras (1663), 3.2.
VICO, The New Science (1725-44), 1.2.
8. There is a pleasure sure / In being
Vhen young we are faithful to in-
10. Give me the luxuries of life and I will
mad which none but madmen know. JOHN
als, when older we grow more loyal
willingly do without the necessities. FRANK
DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar (1681), 2.1.
ations and to types. CYRIL CONNOLLY,
LLOYD WRIGHT, quoted in his obituary,
9. Sanity is very rare: every man almost,
nquiet Grave (1945), 2.
April 9, 1959.
and every woman, has a dash of madness.
in ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of
EMERSON, Journals, 1836.
ness. ELBERT HUBBARD, The Note
10. What is madness / To those who only
1927).
LYING
observe, is often wisdom / To those to
See 329. Falsehood
whom it happens. CHRISTOPHER FRY, A
Phoenix Too Frequent (1950).
LUCK
11. The world is so full of simpletons and
See 358. Fortune
madmen, that one need not seek them in a
M
madhouse. GOETHE, quoted in Johann Peter
554. LUXURY
Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe,
also 310. Excess; 322. Extravagance;
MACHINES
March 17, 1830.
744. Prosperity
See 960. Technology
12. Better mad with the rest of the world
than wise alone. BALTASAR GRACIÁN, The
inds, like bodies, will often fall into a
Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), 133, tr. J.o-
:d, ill-conditioned state from mere ex-
seph Jacobs.
413
598. Morality
rer has ever known. VLADIMIR NABO
try and the current feeling of one's peers.
thing on which they frown. ELBERT HUB-
V in The New York Times, July 21, 1969,
The moon is a friend for the lonesome
SAMUEL BUTLER (d. 1902), "Elementary
BARD, The Philistine (1895-1915).
Morality," Note-Books (1912):
24. There can be no final- truth in ethics
alk to. CARL SANDBURG, "Moonlight and
Everything's got a moral, if only. you
any more than in physics, until the last man
ggots," Complete Poems (1950).
can find it. LEWIS CARROLL, Alice's Adven-
has had his experience and said his say.
Moon, worn thin to the width of
tures in Wonderland (1865), 9.
WILLIAM JAMES, "The Moral Philosopher
II, / In the dawn clouds flying, / How
If there is one thing worse than the
and. the Moral Life," The Will to Believe
d to go, light into light, and still / Giving
modern weakening of major morals it is the
(1896).
t, dying. SARA TEASDALE, Moon's End.
modern strengthening of minor morals. G. K.
25. Be not too hasty to trust or to admire
Strange Victory (1933).
CHESTERTON, "On Lying in Bed," Tremen-
the teachers of morality: they discourse like
dous Trifles (1909).
angels, but they live like men. SAMUEL
13. Distaste sounds more emphatic when
JOHNSON, Rasselas (1759), 18.
598. MORALITY
expressed as moral disapproval. With most
26. Rhetoric takes no real account of the
ee also 75. Behavior; 171. Conscience
of us the moral counterblast is nothing more
art in literature and morality takes no ac-
Goodness; 489. Integrity; 1025. Virtue
than the angry rendering of a yawn. FRANK
count of the art in life. JOSEPH WOOD
MOORE COLBY, "Pleasures of Anxiety," The
KRUTCH, "Life, Art, and Peace," The Mod-
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Margin of Hesitation (1921).
ern Temper (1929).
RY ADAMS, The Education of Henry
14. A man may not transgress the bounds
27. Morality is either a social contract or
ns (1907), 22.
of major morals, but may make errors in mi-
you have to pay cash. STANISLAW LEC, Un-
The only immorality is to not do what
nor morals. CONFUCIUS, Analects (6th c.
kempt Thoughts (1962), tr. Jacek Galazka.
has to do when one has to do it. JEAN
B.C.), 19.11, tr. Ch'u Chai and Winberg Chai.
28. Every man has his moral backside
UILH, Becket (1959), 2.
15. Too many moralists begin with a dis-
too, which he doesn't expose unnecessarily
Decalogue, n. A series of command
like of reality. CLARENCE DAY, This Simian
but keeps covered as long as possible by the
:S, ten in number-just enough to per-
World (1920), 13.
trousers of decorum. GEORG CHRISTOPH
in intelligent selection for observance
16. Every man takes care that his neigh-
LICHTENBERG, Aphorisms (1764-99), tr.
not enough to embarrass the choice.
bor shall not cheat him. But a day comes
F. H. Mautner and H. Hatfield.
ROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
when he begins to care that he do not cheat
29. There is nothing so bad but it can
-1911).
his neighbor. Then all goes well. EMERSON,
masquerade as moral. WALTER LIPPMANN,
Moral, adj. Conforming to a local
"Worship," The Conduct of Life (1860).
"Some Necessary Iconoclasm," A Preface to
nutable standard of right. Having the
17. How can we be scrupulous /'In a life
Politics (1914).
ty of general expediency. AMBROSE
which, from birth onwards, is so deter-
30. The whole speculation about morality
CE, The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1911).
mined / To wring us dry of any serenity at
is an effort to find a way of living which
Morality's not practical. Morality's
all? CHRISTOPHER FRY, The Firstborn
men who live it will instinctively feel is
re. A complicated gesture learned
(1946), 3.1.
good. WALTER LIPPMANN, "Some Neces-
books. ROBERT BOLT, A Man for All
18. The success of any great moral enter-
sary Iconoclasm," A Preface to Politics
ns (1962), 2.
prise does not depend upon numbers. WIL-
(1914).
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine
LIAM LLOYD GARRISON, Life (1885-S9),
31. There cannot any one moral rule be
ophy / But till you feed us, right and
v.3.
proposed whereof a man may not justly de-
can wait! BERTOLT BRECHT, The
19. He who defines his conduct by ethics
mand a reason. JOHN LOCKE, An Essay Con-
penny Opera (1928), 2.3, tr. Desmond
imprisons his song-bird in a cage. KAHLIL
cerning Human Understanding (1690), 1.3.4.
and Eric Bentley.
GIBRAN, "On Religion," The Prophet (1923).
32. Uncle Sam has no conscience. They
Morality, thou deadly bane, / Thy tens
20. What is moral is what you feel good
don't know what morals are. They don't try
usands thou hast slain! / Vain is his
after and what is immoral is what you feel
and eliminate an evil because it's evil, or
whose stay an' trust is / In moral
bad after. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Death in
because it's illegal, or because it's immoral;
truth, and justice! ROBERT BURNS,
the Afternoon (1932), 1.
they eliminate it only when it threatens
edication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
21. Our system of morality is a body of
their existence. MALCOLM X, Malcolm X
imperfect social generalizations expressed
Speaks (1965), 3.
he only absolute morality is absolute
in terms of emotion. OLIVER WENDELL
33. The difference between a moral
tion. SAMUEL BUTLER (d. 1902),
HOLMES, JR., "Ideals and Doubts," Illinois
man and a man of honor is that the latter
and Credit," Note-Books (1912).
Law Review (1915), V. 10.
regrets a discreditable act, even when it
lorality turns on whether the pleasure
22. Morality is largely a matter of geogra-
has worked and he has not been caught.
es or follows the pain. SAMUEL BUT-
phy. ELBERT HUBBARD, The Philistine
H. L. MENCKEN, Prejudices: Fourth Series
1902), "Elementary Morality," Note
(1895-1915).
(1924), 11.
(1912).
23. Morality is the thing upon which
34. Sometimes I feel something akin to
Morality is the custom of one's coun-
your friends smile, and immorality is the
rage / At the corrupted morals of this age!
616. Nature
426
that he has none. EMERSON, Journals, 1857.
38. The chess-board is the world; the
25. Nature is reckless of the individual.
pieces are the phenomena of the universe;
When she has points to carry, she carries
the rules of the game are what we call laws
them. EMERSON, "Culture," The Conduct of
of Nature. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, "A
Life (1860).
Liberal Education" (1868).
26. Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the
39. Deviation from Nature is deviation
shortest way to her ends. EMERSON, "Fate,"
from happiness. SAMUEL JOHNSON, Ras-
The Conduct of Life (1860).
selas (1759), 22.
27. Why should we fear to be crushed by
40. Never does nature say one thing and
savage elements, we who are made up of
wisdom another. JUVENAL, Satires (c. 100),
the same elements? EMERSON, "Fate," The
14.21.
Conduct of Life (1860).
41. The roaring of the wind is my wife
28. How cunningly nature hides every
and the stars through the window pane are
wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity un-
my children. JOHN KEATS, letter to George
der roses and violets and morning dew!
and Georgiana Keats, Oct. 14, 1818.
EMERSON, "The Progress of Culture," Let-
42. Nature, in her blind thirst for life, has
ters and Social Aims (1876).
filled every possible cranny of the rotting
29. "Sail!" quoth the king; "Hold!" saith
earth with some sort of fantastic creature:
the wind. ENGLISH PROVERB.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH, "The Genesis of a
30. How nature loves the incomplete.
Mood," The Modern Temper (1929).
She knows / If she drew a conclusion it
43. Nature takes no account of even the
would finish her. CHRISTOPHER FRY, Venus
most reasonable of human excuses. JOSEPH
Observed (1950), 2.2.
WOOD KRUTCH, "The Paradox of Human-
31. Forget not that the earth delights to
ism," The Modern Temper (1929).
feel your bare feet and the winds long to
44. Only those within whose own con-
X
play with your hair. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "On
sciousness the suns rise and set, the leaves
Clothes," The Prophet (1923).
burgeon and wither, can be said to be
32. The true return to nature is the de-
aware of what living is. JOSEPH WOOD
finitive return to the elements-death.
KRUTCH, "March," The Twelve Seasons
ANDRÉ GIDE, "The Limits of Art," Pretexts
(1949).
(1903), tr. Angelo P. Bertocci and others.
45. The God who planned the well-
33. A plant is like a self-willed man, out
working machines which function as atom
of whom we can obtain all which we desire,
and solar system seems to have had no part
if we will only treat him his own way. GOE-
in arranging the curiously inefficient society
THE, Elective Affinities (1809), 27.
of plants and animals in which everything
34. Nature goes her own way, and all that
works against everything else. JOSEPH
to us seems an exception is really according
WOOD KRUTCH, "May," The Twelve Seasons
to order. COETHE, quoted in Johann Peter
(1949).
Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe,
46. The reason for the sublime simplicity
Dec. 9, 1824.
in the works of nature lies all too often in
35. Bring out your social remedies! They
the sublime shortsightedness in the ob-
will fail, they will fail, every one, until each
server. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG,
man has his feet somewhere upon the soil.
Aphorisms (1764-99), tr. J. P. Stern.
DAVID GRAYSON, Adventures in Content-
47. The visible marks of extraordinary
ment (1907), 6.
wisdom and power appear so plainly in all
36. We do not see nature with our eyes,
the works of creation that a rational creature
but with our understandings and our hearts.
who will but seriously reflect on them can-
WILLIAM HAZLITT, "On Taste," Sketches
not miss the discovery of a deity. JOHN
and Essays (1839).
LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Un-
37. The natural world is dynamic. From
derstanding (1690), 1.4.9.
the expanding universe to the hair on a
48. There is not so contemptible a plant
baby's head, nothing is the same from now
or animal that does not confound the most
to the next moment. HELEN HOOVER, "The
enlarged understanding. JOHN LOCKE, An
Waiting Hills," The Long-Shadowed Forest
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(1963).
(1690), 3.6.9.
663. Parenthood
454
455
15. The new-come stepmother hates the
27. Where parents do too much for their
children born / to a first wife. EURIPIDES,
childre
children, the children will not do much for
Alcestis (438 B.C.), tr. Richmond Lattimore.
Solitu
themselves. ELBERT HUBBARD, The Note
16. All men know their children / Mean
Book (1927).
39
himse
more than life. If childless people sneer /
28. The most ferocious animals are dis
Well, they've less sorrow. But what lone-
(1st c.
armed by caresses to their young. VICTOR
40.
some luck! EURIPIDES, Andromache
HUGO, "Fantine," Les Misérables (1862),
ships,
B.C.), tr. John F. Nims.
4.1, tr. Charles E. Wilbour.
child
17. Here all mankind is equal: / rich and
29. I perceive affection makes a fool / Of
delib
poor alike, they love their children. EURIP-
any man too much the father. BEN JONSON
latior
IDES, Heracles (c. 422 B.C.), tr. William Ar-
Every Man in His Humour (1598), 1.2.
and
rowsmith.
30. The greatest reverence is due to a
41
18. Lucky that man / whose children
child! If you are contemplating a disgrace
alwa
make his happiness in life / and not his
ful act, despise not your child's tender
book
grief, the anguished disappointment of his
years. JUVENAL, Satires (c. 100), 14.47.
chil
hopes. EURIPIDES, Orestes (408 B.C.), tr. Wil-
31. The real menace in dealing with a
Min
liam Arrowsmith.
five-year-old is that in no time at all you be-
Wri
19. Oh, what a power is motherhood, pos-
gin to sound like a five-year-old. JEAN
ed.
sessing / A potent spell. All women alike /
KERR, "How to Get the Best of Your Chil-
4
Fight fiercely for a child. EURIPIDES, Iphi-
dren," Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957).
for
genia in Aulis (c. 405 B.C.), tr. Charles R.
32. It is
sometimes easier to head an
old
Walker.
institute for the study of child guidance
ma
20. A father is a banker provided by na-
than it is to turn one brat into a decent hu-
Jur
ture. FRENCH PROVERB.
man being. JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH, "Whom
(19
21. The mother-child relationship is para-
Do We Picket Tonight?" If You Don't Mind
doxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires
My Saying So (1964).
the
the most intense love on the mother's side,
33. There are some extraordinary fathers,
to
yet this very love must help the child grow
who seem, during the whole course of their
Yc
away from the mother, and to become fully
lives, to be giving their children reasons for
independent. ERICH FROMM, The Sane So-
being consoled at their death. LA BRUYÈRE,
ei
ciety (1955), 3.
Characters (1688), 11.17, tr. Henri Van
d
22. You don't have to deserve your
Laun.
mother's love. You have to deserve your fa-
34. Our [women's] bodies are shaped to
R
ther's. He's more particular. ROBERT FROST,
bear children, and our lives are a working-
interview, Writers at Work: Second Series
out of the processes of creation. All our am-
(1963).
bitions and intelligence are beside that
23. The character and history of each
great elemental point. PHYLLIS MC GIN-
child may be a new and poetic experience
LEY, "The Honor of Being a Woman," The
to the parent, if he will let it. MARGARET
Province of the Heart (1959).
FULLER, Summer on the Lakes (1844), 7.
35. A father is very miserable who has no
24. There is not so much comfort in the
other hold on his children's affection than
having of children as there is sorrow in part-
the need they have of his assistance, if that
ing with them. THOMAS FULLER, M.D.,
can be called affection. MONTAIGNE, "Of
Gnomologia (1732), 4932.
the affections of fathers to their children,"
25. Where yet was ever found a mother, /
Essays (1580-88), tr. Charles Cotton and
Who'd give her booby [baby] for another?
W. C. Hazlitt.
JOHN GAY, "The Mother, the Nurse, and the
36. Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes
Fairy," Fables (1727-38).
of its mother. MOORISH PROVERB.
26. You may give them [your children]
37. Through the survival of their chil-
your love but not your thoughts, / For they
dren, happy parents are able to think
have their own thoughts. / You may house
calmly, and with a very practical affection,
their bodies but not their souls, / For their
of a world in which they are to have no di-
souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which
rect share. WALTER PATER, Marius the
you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Epicurean (1885), 25.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, "On Children," The
38. Men are generally more careful of the
Prophet (1923).
breed of their horses and dogs than of their
666. Parting
456
look after somebody else's wife. ROBERT
thinking. EMERSON, Journals, 1831
SMITH SURTEES, Mr Facey Romford's
2. He who is as faithful to his principles
ing
Hounds (1865), 56.
vield
as he is to himself is the true partisan: WIL
3. I love such mirth as does not make
LIAM HAZLITT, "On the Spirit of Partisan-
HENRY
friends ashamed to look upon one another
ship," Sketches and Essays (1839).
Plymo
next morning. IZAAK WALTON, The Com-
3. Party loyalty lowers the greatest men
pleat Angler (1653), 1.5.
to the petty level of the masses.
passio
LA
the
BRUYÈRE, Characters (1688), 11.63.
4. No new sect ever had humor; no disci
husba
666. PARTING
ples either, even the disciples of Christ.
Don
See also 2. Absence
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, "Theodore,"
Dearly Beloved (1962).
memo
1. Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for
5. The beating of drums, which delights
wants
whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts,
young writers who serve a party, sounds to
SEPH
you feel, this must not happen again. ELIZA-
him who does not belong to the party like:a
6.
BETH BOWEN, The House in Paris (1935),
rattling of chains, and excites sympathy
passic
2.7.
rather than admiration. NIETZSCHE, Miscel-
to the
2. Going away: I can generally bear the
laneous Maxims and Opinions (1879), 308,
sourc
separation, but I don't like the leave-taking.
tr. Paul V. Cohn.
Pensi
SAMUEL BUTLER (d. 1902), "Higgledy-
6. The less reasonable a cult is, the more
Piggledy," Note-Books (1912).
men seek to establish it by force. ROUSSEAU,
vate
3. There's a kind of release / And a kind
Correspondance à Monseigneur l'Arche-
Penso
of torment in every goodbye for every man.
vêque de Paris.
8.
C. DAY-LEWIS, "Departure in the Dark,"
7. A man doesn't save a century, or a
philo
Short Is the Time (1943).
civilization, but a militant party wedded to
sur
I
4. Ever has it been that love knows not
a principle can. ADLAI STEVENSON, address,
9.
its own depth until the hour of separation.
Democratic National Convention, July 21,
man
KAHLIL GIBRAN, "The Coming of the
1952.
lentl
Ship," The Prophet (1923).
8. Party is the madness of many for the
not
5. To leave is to die a little; / It is to die
gain of a few. JONATHAN SWIFT, Thoughts
each
to what one loves. / One leaves behind
on Various Subjects (1711).
to th
a little of oneself /- At any hour, any place.
9. The sectarian thinks / that he has the
God
EDMOND HARAUCOURT, "Rondel de
sea / ladled into his private pond. RABIN-
l'adieu," Choix de poésies (1891).
DRANATH TAGORE, Fireflies (1928).
pow
6. The return makes one love the fare-
10. There is no greater hindrance to the
by
well. ALFRED DE MUSSET, "À mon frère
progress of thought than an attitude of ir-
revenant d'Italie," Poésies nouvelles (1836-
ritated party-spirit. ALFRED NORTH WHITE-
FRA
52).
HEAD, Adventures in Ideas (1933), 8.
(18
7. Every parting gives a foretaste of
1
death; every coming together again a fore-
gre
taste of the resurrection. This is why even
PARTY, POLITICAL
Gn
people who were indifferent to each other
See 704. Political Parties
rejoice so much if they come together again
acc
after twenty or thirty years' separation.
tro
SCHOPENHAUER, "Further Psychological
668. PASSION
tr.
Observations," Parerga and Paralipomena
See also 236. Desires; 282. Emotions;
(1851), tr. T. Bailey Saunders.
548. Love
se
JO
1. Without passion man is a mere latent
667. PARTISANSHIP
force and possibility, like the flint which
wl
See also 109. Causes; 333. Fanaticism;
awaits the shock of the iron before it
453. Impartiality; 704. Political Parties
can give forth its spark. HENRI FRÉDÉRIC
AMIEL, Journal, Dec. 17, 1856, tr. Mrs.
ac
1. A sect or party is an elegant incognito
Humphry Ward.
devised to save a man from the vexation of
2. The way to avoid evil is not by maim-
(1
686. Pettiness
The damp of the night drives deeper into
my soul. WALT WHITMAN, "Song of My-
SHAKESPEARE, 2 Henry VI (1590-91)
4.1.106.
self," 30, Leaves of Grass (1855-92).
13. We cannot be kind to each other here
for an hour; / We whisper, and hint, and
chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame;
686. PETTINESS
However we brave it out, we men are a lit.
See also 522. Largeness; 573. Mediocrity;
tle breed. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
989. Trifles; 1005. Unimportance
"Maud; A Monodrama" (1856), 4.5.
1. No sadder proof can be given by a man
of his own littleness than disbelief in great
687. PHANTASY
men. THOMAS CARLYLE, On Heroes, Hero-
Worship and the Heroic in History (1841),1
See also 264. Dreams; 381. Ghosts;
2. To the mean eye all things are trivial,
447. Illusion; 448. Imagination; 812. Reverie
as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yel-
low. THOMAS CARLYLE, On Heroes, Hero-
1. Imagination consists in expelling from
Worship and the Heroic in History
reality several incomplete persons, and then
(1841), 3.
using the magic and subversive powers of
3. That is the consolation of a little mind;
desire to bring them back in the form of one
you have the fun of changing it without
entirely satisfying presence. RENÉ CHAR,
impeding the progress of mankind. FRANK
The Formal Share, 1, in Hypnos Waking
MOORE COLBY, "Simple Simon," The Colby
(1956), tr. Jackson Mathews and others.
Essays (1926), V.1.
2. To believe in one's dreams is to spend
4. Looking at small advantages prevents
all of one's life asleep. CHINESE PROVERB.
great affairs from being accomplished. CON-
3. Dreams are the subtle Dower / That
FUCIUS, Analects (6th C. B.C.), 13.17, tr.
make us rich an Hour- / Then fling us
James Legge.
poor / Out of the purple door. EMILY DICK-
5. When we play the part of a great man
INSON, poem (c. 1876).
too much, we seem very small. PHILIPPE
4. Few have greater riches than the joy"/
DESTOUCHES, Le Glorieux (1732), 3.5.
That comes to us in visions, / In dreams
6. The pettiness of a mind can be mea-
which nobody can take away. EURIPIDES,
sured by the pettiness of its adoration or its
Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 414-12 B.C.), tr. Wit-
blasphemy. ANDRÉ GIDE, Journals, January
ter Bynner.
1902, tr. Justin O'Brien.
5. Only the dreamer shall understand
7. Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all
realities, though in truth his dreaming must
things are little. GOETHE, The Sorrows of
be not out of proportion to his waking. MAR-
Young Werther (1774), 1, Aug. 18, 1771, tr.
GARET FULLER, Summer on the Lakes
Victor Lange.
(1844), 5.
8. Small minds are much distressed by
6. He who passes not his days in the
little things. Great minds see them all but
realm of dreams is the slave of the days.
are not upset by them. LA ROCHEFOU-
KAHLIL GIBRAN, "The Goddess of Fantasy,"
CAULD, Maxims (1665), tr. Kenneth Pratt.
Thoughts and Meditations (1960), tr. An-
9. A bucket full of water does not splash
thony R. Ferris.
about, only a bucket half-full splashes.
7. On men intoxicated with dreams wo-
MALAY PROVERB.
men's tears act like smelling salts-they so-
10. But me, the fool, save / From waxing
ber them up. MAXIM GORKY, Enemies
so grave, / As, reduced to skimmed milk, to
(1906), 1.
slander / The cream. HERMAN MELVILLE,
8. Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not
"Old Age in His Ailing," At the Hostelry
more sagacious, to follow out one's day-
(1925).
dream to its natural consummation, al-
11. To the mean all becomes mean.
though if the vision have been worth the
NIETZSCHE, "On Old and New Tablets,"
having, it is certain never to be consum-
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-92), 3, tr.
mated otherwise than by a failure. NATHAN-
Walter Kaufmann.
IEL HAWTHORNE, The Blithedale Romance
12. Small things make base men proud.
(1852), 2.
702. Poetry and Poets
480
FORSTER, "Anonymity: An Enquiry," Two
love. DAVID GRAYSON, Adventures in Con-
Cheers for Democracy (1951).
tentment (1907), 5.
37. A true sonnet goes eight lines and
48. A verse may find him who a sermon
then takes a turn for better or worse and
flies, / And turn delight into sacrifice.
goes six or eight lines more. ROBERT FROST,
GEORGE HERBERT, "The Church Porch," 1,
news summaries, March 29, 1954.
The Temple (1633).
38. I- have never started a poem yet
49. An artist who works in marble or col-
whose end I knew. Writing a poem is dis-
ors has them all to himself and his tribe, but
covering. ROBERT FROST, The New York
the man who moulds his thought in verse
Times, Nov. 7, 1955.
has to employ the materials vulgarized by
39. Poetry is the language in which man
everybody's use, and glorify them by his
explores his own amazement. CHRISTOPHER
handling. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.,
FRY, Time, April 3, 1950.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), 4.
40. A very good or very bad poet is re-
50. When you write in prose you say
markable; but a middling one who can
what you mean. When you write in rhyme
bear? THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomologia
you say what you must. OLIVER WENDELL
(1.732), 448.
HOLMES, SR., Over the Teacups (1891), 2.
41. The poet is a bird of strange moods.
51. True poetry, the best of it, is but the
He descends from his lofty domain to tarry
ashes of a burnt-out passion. OLIVER WEN-
among us, singing; if we do not honor him
DELL HOLMES, SR., Over the Teacups
he will unfold his wings and fly back to his
(1891), 4.
dwelling place. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "The Poet
52. It is not enough for poems to be fine;
from Baalbek," Thoughts and Meditations
they must charm, and draw the mind of the
(1960), tr. Anthony R. Ferris.
listener at will. HORACE, Ars Poetica (13-8
42. The world is so great and rich, and
B.C.).
life so full of variety, that you can never lack
53. Poetry is like painting: one piece
occasions for poems. GOETHE, quoted in Jo-
takes your fancy if you stand close to it,
hann Peter Eckermann's Conversations
another if you keep at some distance. HOR-
with Goethe, Sept. 18, 1823.
ACE, Ars Poetica (13-8 B.C.).
43. The poet should seize the Particular,
54. The poet camouflages, in the expres-
and he should, if there be anything sound
sion of joy, his despair at not having found
in it, thus represent the Universal. GOETHE,
its reality. MAX JACOB, La Défense de Tar-
quoted in Johann Peter Eckermann's Con-
tuffe (1919).
versations with Goethe, June 11, 1825.
55. Literature is a state of culture, poetry
44. Poetry is the universal possession of
a state of grace, before and after culture,
mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and
JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ, "Poetry and Litera-
at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of
ture," Selected Writings (1957), tr. H. R.
men. GOETHE, quoted in Johann Peter
Hays.
Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe,
56. A good poet's made as well as born.
Jan. 31, 1827.
BEN JONSON, "To the Memory of Shake-
45. At bottom, no real object is unpoeti-
speare" (1616).
cal, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
57. All good verses are like impromptus
GOETHE, quoted in Johann Peter Ecker-
made at leisure. JOSEPH JOUBERT, Pensées
mann's Conversations with Goethe, July 5,
(1842).
1827.
58. A drainless shower / Of light is poesy;
46. If a poet would work politically, he
'tis the supreme of power; / "Tis might half
must give himself up to a party; and so soon
slumb'ring on its own right arm. JOHN
as he does that, he is lost as a poet. GOETHE,
KEATS, "Sleep and Poetry" (1816).
quoted in Johann Peter Eckermann's Con-
59. Poetry should be great and unobtru-
versations with Goethe, March 1832.
sive, a thing which enters into one's soul,
47. A fine thought, to become poetry,
and does not startle it or amaze it with itself
must be seasoned in the upper warm garrets
but with its subject. JOHN KEATS, letter to
of the mind for long and long, then it must
John Hamilton Reynolds, Feb. 3, 1818.
be brought down and slowly carved into
6o. If Poetry comes not as naturally as the
words, shaped with emotion, polished with
leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
778. Reason
12. What was once called the objective
man: 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto
world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into
God, and the homage we pay for not being
which each culture, each system of science
beasts. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio
and religion, each type of personality, reads
Medici (1642), 1.
a meaning only. remotely derived from the
5. Logic is like the sword those who ap
shape and color of the blot itself. LEWIS
peal to it shall perish by it. SAMUEL BUTLER
MUMFORD, "Orientation to Life," The Con-
(d. 1902), "First Principles," Note-Books
duct of Life (1951).
(1912).
13. Reality is a staircase going neither up
6. No man observes the law of God but in
nor down, we don't move, today is today,
applying his reason to it, by aid from above
always is today. OCTAVIO PAZ, "The Endless
through his faculty of thought. SARA COLE-
Instant," Modern European Poetry (1966),
RIDGE, "On Rationalism," quoted in Samuel
ed. Willis Barnstone.
Taylor Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (1825)
14. Each one of us has his own reality to
7. Peace rules the day, where reason rules
be respected before God, even when it is
the mind. WILLIAM COLLINS, Persian
harmful to one's very self. LUIGI PIRAN-
Eclogues (1742), 2.
DELLO, Six Characters in Search of an All-
S. Reason flies / When following the
thor (1921), 1, tr. Edward Storer.
senses, on clipped wings. DANTE,
15. You too must not count overmuch on
"Paradiso," 2, The Divine Comedy (c. 1300-
your reality as you feel it today, since, like
21), tr. Lawrence Grant White.
that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion
9. The difference between the reason of
for you tomorrow. LUIGI PIRANDELLO, Six
man and the instinct of the beast is this, that
Characters in Search of an Author (1921), 3,
the beast does but know, but the man
tr. Edward Storer.
knows that he knows. JOHN DONNE, Ser-
16. More wisdom is latent in things-as-
mons, No. 57, 1628.
they-are than in all the words men use.
10. Man has such a predilection for sys-
SAINT-EXUPÉRY, The Wisdom of the Sands
tems and abstract deductions that he is
(1948), 22, tr. Stuart Gilbert.
ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is
17. In the American metaphysic, reality
ready to deny the evidence of his senses
is always material reality, hard, resistant, un-
only to justify his logic. DOSTOEVSKY, Notes
formed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. LIO-
from Underground (1864), 1.7, tr. Constance
NEL TRILLING, "Reality in America," The
Garnett.
Liberal Imagination (1950)
11. To a reasonable creature, that alone is
insupportable which is unreasonable; but
everything reasonable may be supported.
77S. REASON
EPICTETUS, Discourses (2nd c.), 1.2, tr.
See also 51. Argument; 491. Intelligence;
Thomas W. Higginson.
738. Proof: 954. Systems: 967. Theory;
12. Reason can wrestle / And overthrow
968. Thought; 1013. Unreason
terror. EURIPIDES, Iphigenia in Aulis (c. 405
B.C.), tr. Charles R. Walker.
1. The mind resorts to reason for want of
13. "Tis in vain to speak reason where
training. HENRY ADAMS, The Education of
'twill not be heard. THOMAS FULLER, M.D.,
Henry Adams (1907), 24.
Gnomologia (1732), 5088.
2. Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain
14. Reason, ruling alone, is a force confin-
once ground into flour springs and germi-
ing; and passion, unattended, is a flame that
nates no more. HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL,
burns to its own destruction. KAHLIL GIB-
Journal, Nov. 7, 1878, tr. Mrs. Humphry
RAN, "On Reason and Passion," The Prophet
Ward.
(1923).
3. Logic, n. The art of thinking and rea-
15. The want of logic annoys. Too much
soning in strict accordance with the limita-
logic bores. Life eludes logic, and every-
tions and incapacities of the human
thing that logic alone constructs remains ar-
misunderstanding. AMBROSE BIERCE, The
tificial and forced. ANDRÉ GIDE, Journals,
Devil's Dictionary (1881-1911).
May 12, 1927, tr. Justin O'Brien.
4. The world was made to be inhabited
16. What eludes logic is the most precious
by beasts, but studied and contemplated by
element in us, and one can draw nothing
783. Reform
532
533
e Great Longing," Thus Spoke Zarathus
783. REFORM
12. Those who have given themselves the
2. (1883-92), 3, tr. Walter Kaufmann.
See also 430. Humanitarianism;
most concern about the happiness of peo-
4. Only those who have, receive, JOSEPH
440. Idealism; 458. Improvement;
ples have made their neighbours very mis-
UX, Meditations of a Parish Priest (1886)
475. Injustice; 1018. Utopia
erable. :ANATOLE FRANCE, The Crime of
10, tr. Isabel F. Hapgood.
Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), 2, tr. Lafcadio
1. In uplifting, get underneath. GEORGE
Hearn.
ADE, "The Good Fairy with the Lorgnette,"
13. In battling evil, excess is good; for he
Fables in Slang (1899).
who is moderate in announcing the truth is
781. RECIPROCITY
2. If you kick a man he kicks you back
presenting half-truth. He conceals the other
again. Therefore never be too eager to com-
half out of fear of the people's wrath. KAH-
If you do good, good will be done to
bat injustice. BERTOLT BRECHT, The
LIL GIBRAN, "Narcotics and Dissecting
but if you do evil, the same will be
Threepenny Opera (1928), 3.3, tr. Desmond
Knives," Thoughts and Meditations (1960),
isured back to you again. "Dabschelim
Bidpai," Fables of Bidpai (c. 750).
Vesey and Eric Bentley.
tr. Anthony R. Ferris.
3. Nobody expects to find comfort and
14. All the evil in the world is the fault of
The sort of thing you say is the thing
companionability in reformers. HEYWOOD
the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their
will be said to you. HOMER, Iliad (9th C.
BROUN, "Whims," New York World, Feb. 6,
eagerness to unearth secrets and expose
20.250, tr. Richmond Lattimore.
Men seldom give pleasure when they
1928.
them to the light of the sun. JEAN GIRAU-
4. Many
have too rashly charged the
DOUX, Electra (1937), 2. tr. Phyllis La Farge
not pleased themselves. SAMUEL JOHN-
troops of error, and remain as trophies unto
with Peter H. Judd.
The Rambler (1750-52), 74
the enemies of truth. SIR THOMAS BROWNE,
15. All reformism is characterized by
He who loves others is constantly loved
Religio Medici (1642), 1.
utopian strategy and tactical opportunism.
nem. He who respects others is con-
5. Men reform a thing by removing the
Graffito written during French student re-
y respected by them. MENCIUS, Works
reality from it, and then do not know what
volt, May 1968.
3rd c. B.C.), 4, tr. Charles A. Wong.
to do with the unreality that is left. G. K.
16. Those who are fond of setting things
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love
CHESTERTON, "On Domestic Servants,"
to rights, have no great objection to seeing
iprocated by love. PLUTARCH, "Mar-
Generally Speaking (1928).
them wrong. WILLIAM HAZLITT, Charac-
Counsel," Moralia (c. A.D. 100), tr.
6. Attempts at reform, when they fail,
teristics (1823).
Hadas.
strengthen despotism, as he that struggles
17. Men, said the Devil, / are good to
tightens those cords he does not succeed in
their brothers: / they don't want to mend /
breaking. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
their own ways but each other's. PIET HEIN,
RECKLESSNESS
(1825), 1.440.
"Mankind," Grooks (1966).
See 90. Boldness; 213. Danger;
7. Experience has two things to teach: the
18. Every man is a reformer until reform
774. Rashness
first is that we must correct a great deal; the
tramps on his toes. EDGAR WATSON HOWE,
second, that we must not correct too much.
Country Town Sayings (1911).
DELACROIX, lettre à Philarète Chasles,
19. As soon as the people fix one Shame of
March 8, 1860.
the World, another turns up. EDGAR WAT-
RECOGNITION
8. A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to
SON HOWE, Ventures in Common Sense
See 47. Appreciation
fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man
(1919), 2.24.
that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels
20. Long customs are not easily broken:
be an iliction is called a rayformer an' re-
he that attempts to change the course of his
782. RECOMPENSE
mains at large. FINLEY PETER DUNNE,
own life very often labours in vain: and how
also 474. Injury; 673. Payment;
"Casual Observations," Mr. Dooley's Phi-
shall we do that for others, which we are
811. Revenge
losophy (1900).
seldom able to do for ourselves? SAMUEL
9. [Th' rayformer] don't undherstand that
JOHNSON, Rasselas (1759), 29.
aying our other debts, we are equal
people wud rather be wrong an' comforta-
21. You've tried to reform what will not
mankind; but in refusing to pay a
ble thin right in jail. FINLEY PETER DUNNE,
learn. / Shut doors on traits that you wish
evenge, we are superior. CHARLES
"Reform Administration," Observations by
were dead; / They will open a window and
OLTON, Lacon (1825), 1.232.
Mr. Dooley (1902).
return. LA FONTAINE, "The Cat Changed to
ompense injury with justice, and
10. Every reform was once a private opin-
a Woman," Fables (1668-94), tr. Marianne
nse kindness with kindness. CON-
ion, and when it shall be a private opinion
Moore.
Analects (6th c. B.C.), 14.36, tr.
again, it will solve the problem of the age.
22. The only ideals that count are those
gge.
EMERSON, "History," Essays: First Series
which express the possible development of
(1841).
an existing force. Reformers must never for-
are more prone to revenge inju-
to requite kindnesses. THOMAS
11. The religions are obsolete when the
get that three legs are a Quixotic ideal; two
M.D., Gnomologia (1732), 3389.
reforms do not proceed from them. EMER-
good legs a genuine one. WALTER LIPP-
SON, Journals, 1872.
MANN, "The Golden Rule and After," A
540
541
794. Repetition
straction from its followers, or even from
e
various types of followers. ALFRED NORTH
Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men
REMINISCENCES
S
WHITEHEAD, Adventures in Ideas (1933),
may wake and gaze upon themselves. KAH-
See 574. Memory
LIL GIBRAN, "On Crime and Punishment,"
The Prophet (1923).
791. REMEDIES
7. If you have behaved badly, repent,
REMORSE
See also 177. Consolations; 241. Diagnosis
make what amends you can and address
See 793. Repentance
572. Medicine
yourself to the task of behaving better next
time. On no account brood over your
1. What destroys one man preserves an-
wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the
792. RENUNCIATION
best way of getting clean. ALDOUS HUXLEY,
Landis. other. CORNEILLE, Cinna (1639), 2.1, tr. Paul
See also 800. Resignation
foreword, Brave New World (1932).
2. It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the
8. All criminals turn preachers when they
1. The Heart asks Pleasure first / And
piano is out of tune. RENÉ COTY, quoted in
are under the gallows. ITALIAN PROVERB.
Time, Jan. 4, 1957.
then Excuse from Pain - / And then-
9. Our repentance is not so much regret
those little Anodynes / That deaden suffer-
for the evil we have done as a fear of what
3. The remedy for all blunders, the cure
of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
ing EMILY DICKINSON, poem (c. 1862).
may happen to us because of it. LA ROCHE-
2. Renunciation is a piercing Virtue /
EMERSON, "Worship," The Conduct of Life
FOUCAULD, Maxims (1665), tr. Kenneth
The letting go / A Presence - for an Expec-
Pratt.
(1860).
tation EMILY DICKINSON, poem (c. 1863).
4. Life as we find it is too hard for us; it
10. Remorse is impotence; it will sin
entails too much pain, too many disappoint-
3. How seek the way which leadeth to our
again. Only repentance is strong; it can end
wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The
ments, impossible tasks. We cannot do with
everything. HENRY MILLER, "Seraphita,"
crown of excellence is renunciation. HÂFIZ,
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941).
out palliative remedies. SIGMUND FREUD,
Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), tr.
ghazals from the Divan (14th c.), 15, tr. Jus-
11. There are people who are very re-
Joan Riviere.
tin Huntly McCarthy.
sourceful / At being remorseful, / And who
apparently feel that the best way to make
5. Burn not your house to fright away the
mice. THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomologia
friends / Is to do something terrible and
REPAYMENT
(1732), 1024.
then make amends. OGDEN NASH, "Hearts
See 782. Recompense
of Gold," Many Long Years Ago (1945).
6. Extreme remedies are very appropriate
for extreme diseases. HIPPOCRATES, Apho-
12. He punishes himself who repents of
risms (c. 400 B.C.), 1.6.
his deeds. PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Moral Sayings
793. REPENTANCE
(ist C. B.C.), 889, tr. Darius Lyman.
7. Most men die of their remedies, not of
See 44. Apology; 785. Regret; 893. Sin
their diseases. MOLIÈRE, The Imaginary In-
13. American People like to have you re-
valid (1673), 3, tr. John Wood.
pent; then they are generous. WILL ROCERS,
1. The sinning is the best part of repent-
"One Oil Lawyer per Barrel," The Illiterate
8. A thousand ills require a thousand
ance. ARABIC PROVERB.
Digest (1924).
cures. OVID, Love's Cure (c. A.D. 8), tr. J.
2. Be grateful to the man who cares noth-
14. Remorse sleeps during prosperity but
Lewis May.
ing for your remorse. You are his equal.
awakes to bitter consciousness during ad-
9. Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a
RENÉ CHAR, "To the Health of the Ser-
versity. ROUSSEAU, Confessions (1766-70),
hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a
pent," Le Poème pulvérisé in Hypnos Wak-
2.
tiara. PLUTARCH, "Contentment," Moralia
ing (1956), tr. Jackson Mathews and others.
15. He that lacks time to mourn, lacks
(c. A.D. 100), tr. Moses Hadas.
3. Revenge is a fever in our own blood, to
time to mend. SIR HENRY TAYLOR, Philip
10. There are some remedies worse than
be cured only by letting the blood of
Van Artevelde (1834), 1.1.5.
the disease. PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Moral Say-
another; but the remedy too often produces
16. The repentant say never a brave
ings (ist C. B.C.), 301, tr. Darius Lyman.
a relapse, which is remorse- a malady far
word. Their resolves should be mumbled in
11. Better use medicines at the outset
more dreadful than the first disease, be-
than at the last moment. PUBLILIUS SYRUS,
silence. THOREAU, Journal, Feb. 28, 1842.
cause it is incurable. CHARLES CALEB COL-
17. The repentance of man is accepted by
Moral Sayings (ist c. B.C.), 866, tr. Darius
TON, Lacon (1825), 1.361.
God as virtue. VOLTAIRE, "Expiation,"
Lyman.
4. The seeds of repentance are sown in
Philosophical Dictionary (1764).
12. Diseases desperate grown / By desper-
youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped
ate appliances are relieved, / Or not at all.
in age by pain. CHARLES CALEB COLTON,
SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet (1600), 4.3.9.
Lacon (1825), 1.454.
794. REPETITION
13. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, /
5. Amendment is repentance. THOMAS
Which we ascribe to heaven. SHAKE-
SPEARE, All's Well That Ends Well
FULLER, M.D., Gnomologia (1732), 789.
1. There is repetition everywhere, and
6. You cannot lay remorse upon the inno-
nothing is found only once in the world.
(1602-03), 1.1.231.
cent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty.
GOETHE, quoted in Johann Peter Ecker-
880. Service
584
that have no serious side. VAN WYCK
4. The noblest service comes from name-
BROOKS, From a Writer's Notebook (1958).
less hands, / And the best servant does his
2. Every man is grave alone. EMERSON,
work unseen. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,
Journals, 1824.
SR., The Poet at the Breakfast Table
3. There is ever a slight suspicion of the
(1872), 5.
burlesque about earnest, good men. EMER-
5. Human service is the highest form of
SON, Journals, 1840.
self-interest for the person who serves. EL-1
4. Taking fun ./ as simply fun / and ear-
BERT HUBBARD, The Note Book (1927).
nestness / in earnest / shows how
6. "Let me light my lamp," / says the star,
thoroughly / thou none / of the two / dis-
/ "And never debate / if it will help to
cernest. PIET HEIN, "The Eternal Twins,"
remove the darkness." RABINDRANATH
Grooks (1966).
TAGORE, Fireflies (1928).
5. There are people who think that every-
7. There is something better, if possible,
thing one does with a serious face is sensi-
that a man can give than his life. That is his
ble. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG,
living spirit to a service that is not easy, to
Aphorisms (1764-99), tr. F. H. Mautner and
resist counsels that are hard to resist,
H. Hatfield.
to stand against purposes that are difficult
6. Solemnity is the shield of idiots. MON-
to stand against. WOODROW WILSON,
TESQUIEU, Pensées et jugements (1899).
speech, May 30, 1919.
7. Almost everything serious is difficult,
and everything is serious. RAINER MARIA
RILKE, Letters to a Young Poet, July 16,
1903, tr. M. D. Herter Norton.
SS1. SERVICES
8. You have to have a serious streak in
See also 224. Deeds; 382. Gifts and Giving;
you or you can't see the funny side in the
430. Humanitàrianism; 831. Sacrifice
other fellow. WILL ROGERS, "What We
Need Is More Fred Stones," The Illiterate
1. The man who confers a favour would
Digest (1924).
rather not be repaid in the same coin. ARIS-
9. Taking sides is the beginning of sincer-
TOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics (4th C. B.C.),
ity, and earnestness follows shortly after-
4.1, tr. J. A. K. Thomson.
wards, and the human being becomes a
2. We should render a service to a friend
bore. OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Im-
to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in
portance (1893), 1.
order to make a friend of him. CLEOBULUS
(6th C. B.C.), quoted in Diogenes Laertius'
SERMONS
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philoso-
See 718. Preaching and Preachers
phers (3rd C. A.D.), tr. R. D. Hicks.
3. He merits no thanks that does a kind-
ness for his own end. THOMAS FULLER,
SS0. SERVICE
M.D., Gnomologia (1732), 1989.
See also 56. Assistance; 224. Deeds;
4. He that doth a good turn looketh for a
430. Humanitarianism;
good turn. THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomo-
1016. Usefulness
logia (1732), 2087.
5. Verily the kindness that gazes upon it-
1. All service ranks the same with
self in a mirror turns to stone, / And a good
God- - / With God, whose puppets, best
deed that calls itself by tender names
and worst, / Are we: there is no last nor
becomes the parent to a curse. KAHLIL
first. ROBERT BROWNING, "Night," Pippa
GIBRAN, "The Farewell," The Prophet
Passes (1841).
(1923).
2. To serve is beautiful, but only if it is
6. To oblige persons often costs little and
done with joy and a whole heart and a free
helps much. BALTASAR GRACIÁN, The Art
mind. PEARL S. BUCK, "Men and Women,"
of Worldly Wisdom (1647), 226, tr. Joseph
To My Daughters, With Love (1967).
Jacobs.
3. Pressed into service means pressed out
7. The pleasure we derive from doing fa-
of shape. ROBERT FROST, "The Self-Seeker,"
vors is partly in the feeling it gives us that
North of Boston (1914).
we are not altogether worthless. ERIC
904. Snow
598
All think their little set mankind. HANNAH
scend like pie from the sky. MAX LERNER
MORE, Florio (1786), 1.
"I'm Dreaming of a Bright Sweepstake," Ac
7. The worst cliques are those which con-
tions and Passions (1949).
sist of one man. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,
4. What the collectivist age wants, allows
Back to Methuselah (1921), 5.
and approves is the perpetual holiday from
8. Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is
the self. THOMAS MANN, "Europe, Beware;
sometimes the prophecy of better things.
The Thomas Mann Reader (1950), tr. H.T
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, "Second
Lowe-Porter.
Study," Backlog Studies (1873).
5. Socialism must come down from the
brain and reach the heart. JULES RENARD,
Journal, August 1905, ed. and tr. Louise Bo-
904. SNOW
gan and Elizabeth Roget.
See also S48. Seasons
1. A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it
SOCIAL WORK
doesn't lie across the path you have to
See 430. Humanitarianism
shovel or block the road that leads to your
destination. HAL BORLAND, "Snowdrifts-
January 26," Sundial of the Seasons (1964).
906. SOCIETY
2. The snow itself is lonely or, if you pre-
See also 36. Anarchy; 52. Aristocracy;
fer, self-sufficient. There is no other time
131. Civilization; 133. Class;
when the whole world seems composed of
393. Government; 485. Institutions;
one thing and one thing only. JOSEPH WOOD
581. Middle Class; 675. The People;
KRUTCH, "December," The Twelve Seasons
923. State
(1949).
3. Snow is all right while it is snowing; /
1. Society is immoral and immortal; it can
It is like inebriation because it is very pleas-
afford to commit any kind of folly, and in-
ing when it is coming, but very unpleasing
dulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed,
when it is going. OGDEN NASH, "Jangle
and the fragments that survive can always
Bells," I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938).
laugh at the dead. HENRY ADAMS, The Edu-
4. Snow is what you are up to your neck
cation of Henry Adams (1907), 18.
in when people / send you post cards from
2. No scheme for a change of society can
Florida saying they wish / you were there.
be made to appear immediately palatable,
OGDEN NASH, "Jangle Bells," I'm a Stranger
except by falsehood, until society has
Here Myself (1938).
become so desperate that it will accept any
change. T. S. ELIOT, "The Idea of a Christian
Society" (1939).
905. SOCIALISM
3. Society acquires new arts and loses old
See also 149. Communism;
instincts. EMERSON, "Self-Reliance," Es-
393. Government
says: First Series (1841).
4. The power that keeps cities of men
1. Socialism without liberty is the bar-
together / Is noble preservation of law.
racks. Graffito written during French stu-
EURIPIDES, The Suppliant Women (c. 421
dent revolt, May 1968.
B.C.), tr. Frank W. Jones.
2. There is the fundamental paradox of
5. Human life in common is only made
the welfare state: that it is not built for the
possible when a majority comes together
desperate, but for those who are already ca-
which is stronger than any separate in-
pable of helping themselves. MICHAEL
dividual and which remains united against
HARRINGTON, The Other America (1962),
all separate individuals. SIGMUND FREUD,
Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), 3, tr.
9.1.
3. The fact is that life has become a
James Strachey.
sweepstake. Millions of people who have
6. In the mouth of Society are many
lost the sense of being able to make any-
diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the
thing of the collective effort of shaping their
jaws. But Society makes no effort to have
economic society, now expect fortune to de-
them extracted and be rid of the affliction.
598
599
907. Society, Polite
1 like pie from the sky. MAX LERNER
It contents itself with gold fillings. KAHLIL
Motivos de Proteo (1941)
Dreaming of a Bright Sweepstake, Ac
GIBRAN, "Decayed Teeth," Thoughts and
17. What man loses by the social contract
and Passions (1949).
Meditations (1960), tr. Anthony R. Ferris.
is his natural liberty and an unlimited right
What the collectivist age wants, allows,
7. One cannot raise the bottom of a so-
to everything he tries to get and succeeds in
approves is the perpetual holiday from
ciety without benefiting everyone above.
getting; what he gains is civil liberty and
elf. THOMAS MANN, "Europe, Beware,"
MICHAEL HARRINGTON, The Other Amer-
the proprietorship of all he possesses. ROUS-
Thomas Mann Reader (1950), tr. H.T.
ica (1962), 9.1.
SEAU, The Social Contract (1762), 1.8, tr.
e-Porter.
S. Society is always trying in some way or
G. D. H. Cole.
Socialism must come down from the
other to grind us down to a single flat sur-
18. Society itself is an accident to the
and reach the heart. JULES RENARD,
face. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The
spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to
al, August 1905, ed. and tr Louise Bo-
Professor at the Breakfast Table (1860), 2.
be justified morally it must be justified at
and Elizabeth Roget.
9. The great society is a place where men
the bar of the individual conscience.
are more concerned with the quality of
GEORGE SANTAYANA, Dialogues in Limbo
their goals than the quantity of their goods.
(1925), 6.
SOCIAL WORK
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, speech, University of
19. Society is a kind of parent to its mem-
See 430. Humanitarianism
Michigan, May 22, 1964.
bers. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values
10. In civilized society we all depend
must be clear, coherent and generally ac-
upon each other, and our happiness is very
ceptable. MILTON R. SAPIRSTEIN, Paradoxes
906. SOCIETY
much owing to the good opinion of man-
of Everyday Life (1955), S.
fee also 36. Anarchy; 52. Aristocracy;
kind. SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in. Bos-
20. Nature holds no brief for the human
131. Civilization; 133. Class;
well's Life of Samuel Johnson, July 20,
experiment: it must stand or fall by its re-
393. Government; 485. Institutions;
1763.
sults. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, preface to
581. Middle Class; 675. The People;
11. The principles of the good society call
Back to Methuselah (1921).
923. State
for a concern with an order of being-
21. Cursed be the social lies that warp us
which cannot be proved existentially to the
from the living truth. ALFRED, LORD TEN-
Society is immoral and immortal; it can
sense where it matters supremely
NYSON, "Locksley Hall" (1842).
di to commit any kind of folly, and in-
that the human person is inviolable, that
22. Every social system is more or less
e in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed,
reason shall regulate the will, that truth
against nature, and at every moment nature
the fragments that survive can always
shall prevail over error. WALTER LIPP-
is at work to reclaim her rights. PAUL VA-
h at the dead. HENRY ADAMS, The Edu-
MANN, The Public Philosophy (1955), 11.4.
LÉRY, "The Idea of Dictatorship," Reflec-
" of Henry Adams (1907), iS.
12. In civilized communities men's idio-
tions on the World Today (1931), tr. Francis
No scheme for a change of society can
syncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of
Scarfe.
nade to appear immediately palatable,
conforming to certain rules of behaviour.
23. We live in society; there is therefore
pt by falsehood, until society has
Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
nothing truly good for us that which does
ome so desperate that it will accept any
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Summing
good to society. VOLTAIRE, "Virtue," Philo-
age. T. S. ELIOT, "The Idea of a Christian
Up (1938), 53.
sophical Dictionary (1764).
ety" (1939).
13. Necessity reconciles and brings men
24. A great society is a society in which its
Society acquires new arts and loses old
together; and this accidental connection
men of business think greatly of their func-
nets. EMERSON, "Self-Reliance," Es-
afterward forms itself into laws. MON-
tions. ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, Adven-
First Series (1841).
TAIGNE, "Of vanity," Essays (1580-88), tr.
tures in Ideas (1933), 6.
The power that keeps cities of men
Charles Cotton and W. C. Hazlitt.
25. The chaos of our society is the
ther / Is noble preservation of law.
14. A decrepit society shuns humor as a
product of the dishevelment of our ideas.
IPIDES, The Suppliant Women (c. 421
decrepit individual shuns drafts. MALCOLM
PHILIP WYLIE, Generation of Vipers
tr. Frank W. Jones.
MUGGERIDGE, "Tread Softly for You Tread
(1942), 6.
Human life in common is only made
on My Jokes," The Most of Malcolm Mug-
ible when a majority comes together
geridge (1966).
ch is stronger than any separate in-
15. Man did not enter into society to
907. SOCIETY, POLITE
dual and which remains united against
become worse than he was before, nor to
See also 151. Company; 599. Manners:
separate individuals. SIGMUND FREUD,
have fewer rights than he had before, but to
665. Parties; 903. Snobbery
lization and Its Discontents (1930), 3, tr.
have those rights better secured. THOMAS
es Strachey.
PAINE, The Rights of Man (1791), 1.
In the mouth of Society are many
16. Every society to which you remain
1. The secret of success in society is a cer-
ased teeth, decayed to the bones of the
bound robs you of a part of your essence,
tain heartiness and sympathy. EMERSON,
;. But Society makes no effort to have
and replaces it with a speck of the gigantic
"Manners," Essays: Second Series (1844).
n extracted and be rid of the affliction.
personality which is its own. JOSÉ RODÓ,
2. Society is a masked ball, where every
606
607
916. Speaking
ice in space will help us nought
proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887).
22. In much of your talking, thinking is
eace on earth is gone. JOHN
6. A fool uttereth all his mind. Bible,
half murdered. / For thought is a bird of
Y, State of the Union Message, Jan
Proverbs 29:11
space, that in a cage of words may indeed
7. Let your speech be alway with grace,
unfold its wings but cannot fly. KAHLIL
3 believe that when men reach
seasoned with salt. Bible, Colossians 4:6.
GIBRAN, "On Talking," The Prophet (1923).
this planet, they should leave their
8. Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders
23. Is there any place where there is no
differences behind them. JOHN
the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when
traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth
Y, news conference, Washington
you wish to talk. AMBROSE BIERCE, The
one who does not worship himself talk-
b. 21, 1962.
Devil's Dictionary (1881-1911).
ing? KAHLIL GIBRAN, "Mister Gabber,"
e eternal silence of these infinite
9. Mouth, n. In man, the gateway to the
Thoughts and Meditations (1960), tr. An-
frightens me. PASCAL, Pensées
soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart. AM-
thony R. Ferris.
.o6, tr. W. F. Trotter.
BROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
24. The true use of speech is not so much
erything in space obeys the laws of
(1881-1911).
to express our wants as to conceal them.
If you know these laws, and obey
10. Too much talk will include errors.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Bee, Oct. 20, 1759.
ace will treat you kindly. And don't
Burmese Proverbs (1962), 461, ed. Hla Pe.
25. There is always time to add a word,
man doesn't belong out there. Man
11. Speech is too often not the art of con-
never to withdraw one. BALTASAR GRA-
wherever he wants to go and he'll
cealing thought, but of quite stifling and
CIÁN, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647),
y well when he gets there. WERN-
suspending thought, so that there is none to
160, tr. Joseph Jacobs.
N BRAUN, Time, Feb. 17, 1958.
conceal. THOMAS CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
26. People do not seem to talk for the sake
(1833-34), 3.3.
of expressing their opinions, but to maintain
12. Little said is soon amended. CER-
an opinion for the sake of talking. WILLIAM
15. SPAIN AND SPANIARDS
VANTES, Don Quixote (1605-15), 1.3.11, tr.
HAZLITT, "On Coffee-House Politicians,"
Peter Motteux and John Ozell.
Table Talk (1821-22).
Spain, the dead are more alive than
13. Talk does not cook rice. CHINESE
27. If no thought / your mind does visit, /
1 of any other country in the world.
PROVERB.
make your speech / not too explicit. PIET
CO GARCÍA LORCA, "The Duende:
14. A dog is not considered good because
HEIN, "The Case for Obscurity," Grooks
and Divertissement," Poet in New
of his barking, and a man is not considered
(1966).
40), appendix 6, tr. Ben Belitt.
clever because of his ability to talk.
28. Talking is like playing on the harp;
ree Spaniards, four opinions. SPAN-
CHUANG TZU, Works (4th-3rd c. B.C.), 32.1,
there is as much in laying the hand on the
VERB.
tr. Lin Yutang.
strings to stop their vibrations as in twang-
15. One never repents of having spoken
ing them to bring out their music. OLIVER
too little, but often of having spoken too
WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Autocrat of the
916. SPEAKING
much. PHILIPPE DE COMMYNES, Mémoires
Breakfast Table (1858), 1.
e also 96. Brevity; 132. Clarity;
(1524), 1.14.
29. Nobody talks much that doesn't say
Communication; 185. Conversation;
16. Oh, who would not lose his speech,
unwise things-things he did not mean to
31. Eloquence; 521. Language;
upon condition to have joys above it? WIL-
say; as no person plays much without strik-
Listening; 757. Public Speaking;
LIAM CONGREVE, The Double-Dealer
ing a false note sometimes. OLIVER WEN-
Silence; 955. Tact; 1057. Words
(1694), 4.5.
DELL HOLMES, SR., The Professor at the
17. Let thy speech be better than silence,
Breakfast Table (1860), 1.
most difficult thing in the world is
or be silent. DIONYSIUS THE ELDER, extant
30. Many people would be more truthful
inkingly what everybody says with-
fragment (4th c. B.C.).
were it not for their uncontrollable desire to
king. ALAIN, Histoire de mes pen-
18. Do not say things. What you are stands
talk. EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town
36).
over you the while and thunders so that I
Sayings (1911).
man is hid under his tongue. ALI
cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
31. From listening comes wisdom, and
-TALIB, Sentences (7th c.), 83, tr. Si-
EMERSON, Journals, 1840.
from speaking repentance. ITALIAN PROV-
kley.
19. Must we always talk for victory, and
ERB.
speak agreeably to him with whom
never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
32. The tongue is more to be feared than
is more than to speak in good words
EMERSON, Journals, 1856.
the sword. JAPANESE PROVERB.
od order. FRANCIS BACON, "Of Dis-
20. First learn the meaning of what you
33. No glass renders a man's form or like-
Essays (1625).
say, and then speak. EPICTETUS, Discourses
ness so true as his speech. BEN JONSON, "Of
e voice is a second face. GÉRARD
(2nd c.), 3.23, tr. Thomas W. Higginson.
Language in Oratory," Timber (1640).
Carnets inédits.
21. When you speak to a man, look on his
34. Whom the disease of talking still once
ne love to speak so much, when the
eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his
possesseth, he can never hold his peace.
f speaking comes, as they who are
mouth. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Rich-
BEN JONSON, "Of Talking Overmuch," Tim-
y taciturn. HENRY WARD BEECHER,
ard's Almanack (1732-57).
ber (1640).
939. Suffering
620
6
7. We cannot live, sorrow or die for some-
HUBBARD, The Note Book (1927).
body else, for suffering is too precious to be
20. Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain
shared. EDWARD DAHLBERG, Because I Was
Clings cruelly to us. JOHN KEATS, Endymion
Flesh (1963).
(1817), 1.
S. Either the human being must suffer
21. Although the world is full of suffering,
and struggle. as the price of a more search-
it is full also of the overcoming of it. HELEN
ing vision, or his gaze must be shallow and
KELLER, Optimism (1903), 1.
without intellectual revelation. THOMAS DE
22. Beauty cannot disguise nor music
QUINCEY, "Vision of Life," Suspiria de Pro-
melt / A pain undiagnosable but felt. ANNE
fundis (1845).
MORROW LINDBERGH, "The Stone," The
9. A Wounded leaps highest.
Unicorn and Other Poems, 1935-1955
EMILY DICKINSON, poem (c. 1860).
(1956).
10. Pain - has an Element of Blank - / It
23. Know how sublime a thing it is / To
cannot recollect / When it begun or if
suffer and be strong. LONGFELLOW, "The
there were / A time when it was not-
Light of the Stars," Voices of the Night
EMILY DICKINSON, poem (c. 1862).
(1839).
11. Suffering is the sole origin of con-
24. Even pain / Pricks to livelier living.
sciousness. DOSTOEVSKY, Notes from Under-
AMY LOWELL, "Happiness," Sword Blades
ground (1864), 1.9, tr. Constance Garnett.
and Poppy Seeds (1914).
12. Pain and death are a part of life. To
25. To be good we must needs have suf-
reject them is to reject life itself. HAVELOCK
fered; but perhaps it is necessary to have
ELLIS, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and
caused suffering before we can become bet-
Virtue (1937), 2.5.
ter. MAURICE MAETERLINCK, "The Invisi-
13. Pain, indolence, sterility, endless
ble Goodness," The Treasure of the Humble
ennui have also their lesson for you, if you
(1896), tr. Alfred Sutro.
are great. EMERSON, Journals, 1845.
26. If you are distressed by anything ex-
14. An hour of pain is as long as a day of
ternal, the pain is not due to the thing itself
pleasure. ENGLISH PROVERB.
but to your own estimate of it; and this you
15. Much of your pain is self-chosen. / It
have the power to revoke at any moment.
is the bitter potion by which the physician
MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations (2nd c.),
within you heals your sick self. KAHLIL
8.47, tr. Maxwell Staniforth.
GIBRAN, "On Pain," The Prophet (1923).
27. It is not true that suffering ennobles
16. Forget your personal tragedy. We are
the character; happiness does that some-
all bitched from the start and you especially
times, but suffering, for the most part,
have to be hurt like hell before you can
makes men petty and vindictive. W. SOMER-
write seriously. But when you get the
SET MAUGHAM, The Moon and Sixpence
damned hurt use it don't cheat with it. ER-
(1919), 17.
NEST HEMINGWAY, quoted in Andrew
28. Suffering for truth's sake / Is fortitude
Turnbull's Scott Fitzgerald (1962), 14.
to highest victory, / And to the faithful
i7. All the reasoning in the world, all the
death the gate of life. MILTON, Paradise
proof-texts in old manuscripts, cannot rec-
Lost (1667), 12.569.
oncile this supposition of a world of sleep-
29. He who fears he shall suffer, already
less and endless torment with the dec-
suffers what he fears. MONTAIGNE, "Of ex-
laration that "God is love." OLIVER WEN-
perience," Essays (1580-88), tr. Charles
DELL HOLMES, SR., Over the Teacups
Cotton and W. C. Hazlitt.
(1891), 10.
30. We are more sensible of one little
18. Each one of us must suffer long to
touch of a surgeon's lancet than of twenty
himself before he can learn that he is but
wounds with a sword in the heat of fight.
one in a great community of wretchedness
MONTAIGNE, "That the relish of good and
which has been pitilessly repeating itself
evil depends in a great measure upon the
from the foundation of the world. WILLIAM
opinion we have of them," Essays
DEAN HOWELLS, The Rise of Silas Lapham
(1580-88), tr. Charles Cotton and W. C. Haz-
(1885), 17.
litt.
19. Cod will not look you over for medals,
31. What really raises one's indignation
degrees or diplomas, but for scars! ELBERT
against suffering is not suffering intrinsi-
959. Teaching
628
629
nets, we have taxes. ERVING COFFMAN
young men to be able to teach them any-
thenes," Imaginary Conversations (1824-
view, The New York Times, Feb: 12
thing. SAMUEL BUTLER (d. 1902), "Higgle-
53).
dy-Piggledy," Note-Books (1912).
17. The greater part of the people we as-
The wisdom of man never yet con
5. First he wrought, and afterwards he
sign to educate our sons we know for cer-
d a system of taxation that would
taught. CHAUCER, "Prologue," The Canter-
tain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt
ate with perfect equality. ANDREW
bury Tales (1387-1400), 496, ed. Thomas
that they can give what they have not re-
SON, Proclamation to the People of
Tyrwhitt.
ceived, a thing which cannot be otherwise
h Carolina, Dec. 10, 1832.
6. If a man keeps cherishing his old
acquired. GIACOMO LEOPARDI, Pensieri
The Income Tax has made more Liars
knowledge, so as continually to be acquir-
(1834-37), 10, tr. William Fense Weaver.
of the American people than golf has.
ing new, he may be a teacher of others.
18. It is easier for a tutor to command
ROGERS, "Helping the Girls with
CONFUCIUS, Analects (6th c. B.C.), 2.11, tr.
than to teach. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts
r 1). Income Taxes," The Illiterate Digest
James Legge.
Concerning Education (1693), 50.
7. The whole secret of the teacher's force
19. A man who knows a subject
When everybody has got money they
lies in the conviction that men are converti-
thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he
ixes, and when they're broke they raise
ble. EMERSON, Journals, 1834.
eats it, sleeps it and dreams this man can
That's statesmanship of the highest or-
8. I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the
always teach it with success, no matter how
WILL ROGERS, The Autobiography of
schoolboys that educate my son. EMERSON,
little he knows of technical pedagogy.
Rogers (1949), 17.
Journals, 1849.
H. L. MENCKEN, Prejudices: Third Series
Noah must have taken into the Ark
9. The whole art of teaching is only the
(1922), 13.
axes, one male and one female, and did
art of awakening the natural curiosity of
20. I maintain, in truth, / That with a
multiply bountifully! Next to guinea
young minds for the purpose of satisfying it
smile we should instruct our youth, / Be
taxes must have been the most prolific
afterwards. ANATOLE FRANCE, The Crime
very gentle when we have to blame, / And
als. WILL ROGERS, The Autobiography
of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), 2, tr. Lafcadio
not put them in fear of virtue's name. Mo-
ill Rogers (1949), 19.
Hearn.
LIÈRE, The School for Husbands (1661),
Taxes, after all, are the dues that we
10. A teacher is better than two books.
1.2, tr. Donald M. Frame.
or the privileges of membership in an
GERMAN PROVERB.
21. An educator never says what he him-
ized society. FRANKLIN D. ROOSE-
11. No man can reveal to you aught but
self thinks, but only that which he thinks it
speech, Worcester, Mass. Oct. 21,
X
that which already lies half asleep in the
is good for those whom he is educating to
dawning of your knowledge. KAHLIL GIB-
hear. NIETZSCHE, The Will to Power (1888),
It is the part of a good shepherd to
RAN, "On Teaching," The Prophet (1923).
980, tr. Anthony M. Ludovici.
his flock, not to flay it. TIBERIUS,
12. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for
22. He who wishes to teach us a truth
d in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars:
one single good action, for one single good
should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it
ius (2nd C. A.D.), 32.2.
poem, accomplishes more than he who fills
with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts
our memory with rows and rows of natural
an ideal trajectory in the air along which we
objects, classified with name and form.
glide until we find ourselves at the feet of
GOETHE, Elective Affinities (1809), 25.
the new truth. JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET,
959. TEACHING
13. He that teaches us anything which we
"Preliminary Meditation," Meditations on
e also 277. Education; 529. Learning
knew not before is undoubtedly to be rever-
Quixote (1914).
enced as a master. SAMUEL JOHNSON, The
23. Men must be taught as if you taught
teacher affects eternity; he can never
Idler (1758-60), 85.
them not, / And things unknown proposed
vhere his influence stops! HENRY
14. To teach is to learn twice over. JO-
as things forgot. ALEXANDER POPE, An Es-
S, The Education of Henry Adams
SEPH JOUBERT, Pensées (1842), 18.18, tr.
say on Criticism (1711), 3.15.
20.
Katharine Lyttelton.
24. Too much rigidity on the part of
othing is more tiresome than a super-
15. He [the schoolmaster] is awkward, and
teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit
ted pedagogue. HENRY ADAMS, The
out of place, in the society of his equals. He
of insubordination on the part of the taught.
tion of Henry Adams (1907), 23.
comes like Gulliver from among his little
AGNES REPPLIER, "Literary Shibboleths,"
'eachers, who educate children, de-
people, and he cannot fit the stature of his
Points of View (1891).
more honor than parents, who merely
understanding to yours. CHARLES LAMB,
25. The severity of the master is more
them birth; for the latter provided
"The Old and the New Schoolmaster," Es-
useful than the indulgence of the father.
life, while the former ensure a good
says of Elia (1823).
SA'DI, Gulistan (1258), 7.4, tr. James Ross.
RISTOTLE (4th C. B.C.), quoted in Diog-
16. Men universally are ungrateful toward
26. My joy in learning is partly that it en-
Laertius' Lives and Opinions of Emi-
him who instructs them, unless, in the hours
ables me to teach. SENECA, Letters to
Philosophers (3rd c. A.D.), tr. R. D.
or in the intervals of instruction, he presents
Lucilius (ist c.), 6.4, tr. E. Phillips Barker.
a sweet cake to their self-love. WALTER
27. He who can, does. He who cannot,
he dons are too busy educating the
SAVAGE LANDOR, "Aristoteles and Callis-
teaches. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, "Maxims
991. Truth
654
43. Truth fears no trial. THOMAS FULLER,
discover and hard to attain. HERACLITUS
M.D., Gnomologia (1732), 5297.
Fragments (c. 500 B.C.), 19, tr. Philip Wheel
.44. Truth may sometimes come out of the
wright.
Devil's mouth. THOMAS FULLER, M.D.,
57. Such truth as opposeth no man's profit
Gnomologia (1732), 5308.
nor pleasure is to all men welcome.
45. Truth has a handsome countenance
THOMAS HOBBES, "A Review and Conclu-
but torn garments. GERMAN PROVERB.
sion," Leviathan (1651).
46. Say not, "I have found the truth," but
58. Add a few drops of venom to a half
rather, "1 have found a truth." KAHLIL GIB-
truth and you have an absolute truth. ERIC
RAN, "On Self-Knowledge," The Prophet
HOFFER, The Passionate State of Mind
(1923).
(1954), 216.
47. We no longer admit any other truth
59. As with the pursuit of happiness, the
than that which is expedient; for there is no
pursuit of truth is itself gratifying where-
worse error than the truth that may weaken
as the consummation often turns out to
the arm that is fighting. ANDRÉ GIDE, "Re-
be elusive. RICHARD HOFSTADTER, Anti-
flections on Germany," Pretexts (1903), tr.
Intellectualism in American Life (1963), 1.2.
Angelo P. Bertocci and others.
6o. Truth is tough. It will not break, like a
48. To love the truth is to refuse to let
bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it
oneself be saddened by it. ANDRÉ GIDE,
about all day like a football, and it will be
Journals, Oct. 14, 1940, tr. Justin O'Brien.
round and full at evening. OLIVER WEN-
49. The truths of life are not discovered
DELL HOLMES, SR., The Professor at the
by us. At moments unforeseen, some gra-
Breakfast Table (1860), 5.
61. Our test of truth is a reference to ei-
cious influence descends upon the soul,
touching it to an emotion which, we know
ther a present or imagined future majority
in favor of our view. OLIVER WENDELL
not how, the mind transmutes into thought.
HOLMES, JR., "Natural Law," Harvard Law
GEORGE GISSING, "Autumn," The Private Pa-
Review (1918), V. 32.
pers of Henry Ryecroft (1903).
62. I used to say, when I was young, that
50. The brilliant passes, like the dew at
truth was the majority vote of that nation
morn; / The true endures, for ages yet un-
that could lick all others. OLIVER WENDELL
born. GOETHE, "Prelude in the Theatre,"
HOLMES, JR., "Natural Law," Harvard Law
Faust: Part I (1808), tr. Philip Wayne.
Review (1918), V. 32.
51. The very truths which concern us
63. It is the customary fate of new truths
most can only be half spoken, but with at-
to begin as heresies and to end as supersti-
tention we can grasp the whole meaning.
tions. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, "The Com-
BALTASAR GRACIÁN, The Art of Worldly
ing of Age of The Origin of Species" (1880).
Wisdom (1647), 25, tr. Joseph Jacobs.
64. One point is certain, that truth is one
52. Truth always lags last, limping along
and immutable; until the jurors all agree,
on the arm of Time. BALTASAR GRACIÁN,
they cannot all be right. WASHINGTON IR-
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), 146, tr.
VING, "The Widow's Ordeal," Wolfert's
Joseph Jacobs.
Roost (1855).
53. Political truth is a libel-religious
65. It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or
truth blasphemy. WILLIAM HAZLITT, "Com-
terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too
monplaces," The Round Table (1817), 42.
strong a light. The torch of Truth shows
54. One truth discovered, one pang of re-
much that we cannot, and all that we would
gret at not being able to express it, is better
not, see. SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler
than all the fluency and flippancy in the
(1750-52), 10.
world. WILLIAM HAZLITT, "My First Ac-
66. In order that all men may be taught to
quaintance with Poets," The Plain Speaker
speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise
(1826).
should learn to hear it. SAMUEL JOHNSON,
55. Truth is a torch which gleams in the
The Rambler (1750-52), 96.
fog but does not dispel it. CLAUDE-ADRIEN
67. The dignity of truth is lost / With
HELVÉTIUS, preface to De l'esprit (1758).
much protesting. BEN JONSON, Catiline His
56. Unless you expect the unexpected
Conspiracy (1611), 3.2.
you will never find [truth], for it is hard to
68. Truth is man's proper good, and the
994. Twentieth Century
658
659
1, Lies are as communicative as fleas:
the The highest compact we can make
believable. NAPOLEON I, Maxims (1804-15).
truth is as difficult to lay hold upon
with our fellow is, "Let there be truth be-
16. All truths that are kept silent become
it. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, "Diog
tween us two for evermore." EMERSON,
poisonous. NIETZSCHE, "On Self-Overcom-
and Plato," Imaginary Conversations
"Behavior," The Conduct of Life (1860).
ing," Thus Spoke Zarathustra. (1883-92), 2,
1-53).
3. Whatever games are played with us,
tr. Walter Kaufmann.
Truth does not do as much good
we must play no games with ourselves, but
17. The inability to lie is far from the love
world as its imitations do harm. LA
deal in our privacy with the last honesty
of truth. NIETZSCHE, "On the Higher Man,"
HEFOUCAULD, Pratt. Maxims (1665), tr. Ken-
and truth. EMERSON, "Illusions," The Con-
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-92), 4, tr.
duct of Life (1860).
Walter Kaufmann.
:, Truth gains more even by the errors
All truth is not to be told at all times.
18. They deem him their worst enemy
11. who, with due study and preparation,
THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomologia (1732),
who tells them the truth. PLATO, The
1.5 for himself, than by the true opinions
Republic (4th C. B.C.), 4, tr. Benjamin Jowett.
567.
"se who only hold them because they
5. He that does not speak truth to me does
19. There are few nudities so objection-
1111 suffer themselves to think. JOHN
not believe me when I speak truth.
able as the naked truth. AGNES REPPLIER,
VAT MILL, On Liberty (1859), 2.
THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomologia (1732),
"The Gayety of Life," Compromises (1904).
What kind of truth is it which has
20. O, while you live, tell truth and shame
2084.
mountains as its boundaryland is a lie
6. To be modest in speaking truth is hy-
the devil! SHAKESPEARE, 1 Henry IV
vid them? MONTAIGNE, "Apology for
X
pocrisy. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "Narcotics and
(1597-98), 3.1.62.
and de Sebonde," Essays (1580-88).
Dissecting Knives," Thoughts and Medita-
21. If you want to be thought a liar, al-
Truth is always twins; for every truth
tions (1960), tr. Anthony R. Ferris.
ways tell the truth. LOGAN PEARSALL
companied by its facsimile error-
7. To be wiser than other men is to be
SMITH, Afterthoughts (1931), +.
), is the application of that by literal-
honester than they; and strength of mind is
22. Truth is the most valuable thing we
:e.cl people. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, In-
only courage to see and speak the truth.
have. Let us economize it. MARK TWAIN,
110! (1923), 1.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, "On Knowledge of the
"Pudd' nhead Wilson's New Calendar," Fol-
A Hair perhaps divides the False
World," Sketches and Essays (1839).
lowing the Equator (1897), 1.7.
True. OMAR KHAYYÁM, Rubáiyát
8. Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
23. Often, the surest way to convey misin-
12th c.), tr. Edward FitzGerald, 4th
/ A fault which needs it most, grows two
formation is to tell the strict truth. MARK
thereby. GEORGE HERBERT, "The Church
TWAIN, "Pudd" nhead Wilson's New Calen-
We perceive an image of truth, and
Porch," 13, The Temple (1633).
dar," Following the Equator (1897), 2.23.
as only a lie. PASCAL, Pensées (1670),
9. Veracity is the heart of morality.
24. If you tell the truth you don't have to
b. W. F: Trotter.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, "Universities,
remember anything. MARK TWAIN, Note-
A peace-mingling falsehood is prefer-
Actual and Ideal" (1874).
book (1935).
:, a mischief-stirring truth. DI, Gu-
10. It is always the best policy to speak
'1258), 1.1, tr. James Ross.
the truth, unless of course you are an excep-
The truth is balance, but the opposite
tionally good liar. JEROME K. JEROME, The
TRYING
th. which is unbalance, may not be a
Idler, February 1892.
See 279. Effort
'SAN SONTAC, "Simon Weil!' Against
11. A man's word / Is believed just to the
retation (1961).
extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
The history of our race, and each in-
JUVENAL, Satires (c. 100), 3.143, tr. Hubert
TURN
unl's experience, are sown thick with
Creekmore.
See 32. Alternation
ine that a truth is not hard to kill and
12. Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood
lie told well is immortal. MARK
to the heart. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,
"Advice to Youth" (1923).
"L'Envoi" (1843).
994. TWENTIETH CENTURY
13. On the one hand, we may tell the
See also 3. The Absurd; 296. Era;
truth, regardless of consequences, and on
633. Nuclear Power; 960. Technology;
993. TRUTHFULNESS
the other hand we may mellow it and so-
1060. World
ilso 329. Falsehood; 360. Frankness;
phisticate it to make it humane and tolera-
Honesty; S94. Sincerity; 991 Truth;
ble. H. L. MENCKEN, "The Art Eternal," The
1. At its mid-afternoon the twentieth cen-
992. Truth and Falsehood
New York Evening Mail, 1918.
tury seems afflicted by a gigantic and
14. I speak truth, not so much as I would,
progressive power failure. Powerlessness
ove you and, because I love you, I
but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the
and the sense of powerlessness may be the
boner have you hate me for telling
more, as 1 grow older. MONTAIGNE, "Of re-
environmental disease of the age. RUSSELL
in truth than adore me for telling you
pentance," Essays (1580-88), tr. Charles
BAKER, "Observer," The New York Times,
PETRO ARETINO, letter to Giovanni
Cotton and W. C. Hazlitt.
May 1, 1969.
Aug. 28, 1537, tr. Samuel Putnam.
15. To be believed, make the truth un-
2. If civilization has risen from the Stone
706
707
1058. Work
5. No fine work can be done without con-
Dead (1862), 1.2, tr. Constance Garnett.
33. The hand that has the week-day
centration and self-sacrifice and toil and
19. Originality and the feeling of one's
broom to ply, / On Sunday gives the pleas-
doubt. MAX BEERBOHM, "Books Within
own dignity are achieved only through
antest caresses. GOETHE, "Night," Faust:
Books," And Even Now (1920).
work and struggle. DOSTOEVSKY, A Diary of
Part I (1808), tr. Philip Wayne.
6. A man's work is rather the needful sup-
a Writer (1873), 3.
34. When work is a pleasure, life is a joy!
blement to himself than the outcome of it.
20. Wurruk is wurruk if ye're paid to do it
When work is a duty; life is slavery. MAXIM
MAX BEERBOHM, "Hethway Speaking,'
an it's pleasure if ye pay to be allowed to do
GORKY, The Lower Depths (1903), 1, tr.
Mainly On the Air (1946).
it. FINLEY PETER DUNNE, "Work and
Alexander Bakshy.
7. To work is to pray. ST. BENEDICT OF
Sport," Observations by Mr. Dooley (1902).
35. Human happiness is the true odour of
JURSIA (480?-?543), motto.
21. Where there is most labour there is
growth, the sweet exhalation of work. DAVID
8. What is work? and what is not work?
not always most life. HAVELOCK ELLIS, pref-
GRAYSON, Adventures in Contentment
re questions that perplex the wisest of
ace, The Dance of Life (1923).
(1907), 6.
en. Bhagavadgita, 4, tr. P. Lal.
22. We put our love where we have put
36. He who does nothing renders himself
9. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
our labor. EMERSON, Journals, 1836.
incapable of doing any thing; but while
read, till thou return unto the ground; for
23. The life of labor does not make men,
we are executing any work, we are prepar-
ut of it wast thou taken. Bible, Genesis
but drudges. EMERSON, Journals, 1843.
ing and qualifying ourselves to undertake
:16.
24. It is the privilege of any human work
another. WILLIAM HAZLITT, "On Applica-
10. Whether our work is art or science or
which is well done to invest the doer with a
tion to Study," The Plain Speaker
ie daily work of society, it is only the form
certain haughtiness. EMERSON, "Wealth,"
(1S26).
1 which we explore our experience which
The Conduct of Life (1860).
37. Serious occupation is labor that has
different. JACOB BRONOWSKI, "The Sense
25. Every man's task is his life-preserver.
reference to some want. HEGEL, Philosophy
Human Dignity," Science and Human
EMERSON, "Worship," The Conduct of Life
of History (1832), 1.2.1, tr. John Sibree.
alues (1956).
(1860).
38. It is weariness to keep toiling at the
11. Most people spend most of their days
26. Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of
same things so that one becomes ruled by
bing what they do not want to do in order
fame. EURIPIDES, Licymnius (c. 450 B.C.),
them. HERACLITUS, Fragments (c. 500 B.C.),
earn the right, at times, to do what they
477, tr. M. H. Morgan.
S9, tr. Philip Wheelwright.
ay desire. JOHN MASON BROWN, Esquire,
27. If the building of a bridge does not
39. To labour is the lot of man below; /
bril 1960.
enrich the awareness of those who work on
And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
12. Everything under the sun is work.
it, then that bridge ought not to be built.
HOMER, Iliad (9th c. B.C.), 10.78, tr. Alex-
veat, even in our sleep. GEORG BÜCHNER,
FRANTZ FANON, "The Pitfalls of National
ander Pope.
oyzeck (1836), 6, tr. Theodore Hoffman.
Consciousness," The Wretched of the Earth
40. There is only one thing for a man to
13. He that will not work according to his
(1961), tr. Constance Farrington.
do who is married to a woman who enjoys
culty, let him perish according to his
28. One of the saddest things is that the
spending money, and that is to enjoy earn-
cessity: there is no law juster than that.
only thing a man can do for eight hours a
ing it. EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country
OMAS CARLYLE, Chartism (1839), 3.
day, day after day, is work. You can't eat
Town Sayings (1911).
14. He that can work is a born king of
eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a
41. The best preparation for good work
mething. THOMAS CARLYLE, Chartism
day nor make love for eight hours. WIL-
tomorrow is to do good work today. ELBERT
'39), 3.
LIAM FAULKNER, interview, Writers at
HUBBARD, The Note Book (1927).
5. He who considers his work beneath
Work: First Series (1958).
42. Do your work with your whole heart
n will be above doing it well. ALEX-
29. Day's work is still to do, / Whatever
and you will-succeed-there is so little com-
DER CHASE, Perspectives (1966).
the day's doom. CHRISTOPHER FRY, Thor,
petition! ELBERT HUBBARD, The Note Book
6. The ant is knowing and wise; but he
with Angels (1948).
(1927).
esn't know enough to take a vacation.
30. Men for the sake of getting a living
43- A man is not idle because he is ab-
ARENCE DAY, This Simian World (1920),
forget to live. MARGARET FULLER, Summer
sorbed in thought. There is a visible labour
on the Lakes (1844), 7.
and there is an invisible labour. VICTOR
7. Honest labour bears a lovely face.
31. All work is empty save when there is
HUGO, "Cosette," Les Misérables (1862), 7.8,
OMAS DEKKER, Patient Grissell (1603),
love. KAHLIL GIBRAN, "On Work," The
tr. Charles E. Wilbour.
Prophet (1923).
44. Work is prayer. Work is also stink.
8. To crush, to annihilate a man utterly,
32. Most people work the greater part of
Therefore stink is prayer. ALDOUS HUNLEY,
nflict on him the most terrible of punish-
their time for a mere living; and the little
Jesting Pilate (1926), 1.
nts so that the most ferocious murderer
freedom which remains to them so troubles
45. It is a poor art that maintains not the
ild shudder at it and dread it before-
them that they use every means of getting
artisan. ITALIAN PROVERB.
d, one need only give him work of an
rid of it. GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young
46. I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit
plutely, completely useless and irrational
Werther (1774), 1, May 17, 1771, tr. Victor
and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by
racter. DOSTOEVSKY, The House of the
Lange.
me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly
1063. Wrongdoing
write, but to write what you mean. ROBERT
LOUIS STEVENSON, title essay, 4, Virginibus
Puerisque (1881).
1063. WRONGDOING
103. The good writing of any age has al-
See also 171. Conscience; 188. Corruption;
ways been the product of someone's neuro-
201. Crime; 224. Deeds; 305. Evil;
sis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if
809. Retribution; 893. Sin; 1023. Vice
all the writers that came along were a
1048. Wickedness
bunch of happy chuckleheads. WILLIAM
STYRON, interview, Writers at Work: First
1. The act of evil / breeds others to follow
Series (1958).
/ young sins in its own likeness. AES
104. Nothing goes by luck in composition.
CHYLUS, Agamemnon (458 B.C.), tr. Rich.
It allows of no tricks. The best you can write
mond Lattimore.
will be the best you are. THOREAU, Journal,
2. A bad man can do a million times more
Feb. 28, 1841.
harm than a beast. ARISTOTLE, Nicoma-
105. There are two classes of authors: the
chean Ethics (4th c. B.C.), 7.6, tr. J. A. K.
one write the history of their times, the
Thomson.
other their biography. THOREAU, Journal,
3. Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein
April 22, 1841.
Bible, Proverbs 26:27.
106. Ideally, the writer needs no audi-
4. If once a man indulges himself in mur-
ence other than the few who understand. It
der, very soon he comes to think little of
is immodest and greedy to want more. CORE
robbing; and from robbing he comes next to
VIDAL, "French Letters: Theories of the
drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from
New Novel," Encounter, December 1967.
that to incivility and procrastination.
107. Your business as a writer is not to
THOMAS DE QUINCEY, "On Murder Consid-
illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow
ered as One of the Fine Arts" (1827-54).
may move toward it or away from it. ROB-
5. Throughout our life, our worst weak-
ERT PENN WARREN, Paris Review, Spring-
nesses and meannesses are usually commit-
Summer 1957.
ted for the sake of the people whom we
108. There is no royal path to good writ-
most despise. CHARLES DICKENS, Great Ex-
ing; and such paths as exist do not lead
pectations (1860-61), 27.
through neat critical gardens, various as
6. The flea, though he kill none, he does
they are, but through the jungles of self, the
all the harm he can. JOHN DONNE, Devo-
world, and of craft. JESSAMYN WEST, Satur-
tions (1624), 12.
day Review, Sept. 21, 1957.
7. You cannot do wrong without suffering
109. To speak in literature with the per-
wrong. EMERSON, "Compensation," Essays:
fect rectitude and insouciance of the
First Series (1841).
movements of animals and the unim-
8. For a wrongdoer to be undetected is
peachableness of the sentiment of trees in
difficult; and for him to have confidence
the woods and grass by the roadside is the
that his concealment will continue is impos-
flawless triumph of art. WALT WHITMAN,
sible. EPICURUS, "Vatican Sayings" (3rd c.
preface to Leaves of Grass (1855).
B.C.), 7, in Letters, Principal Doctrines, and
110. Literature is strewn with the wreck-
Vatican Sayings, tr. Russel M. Geer.
age of men who have minded beyond rea-
9. If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it
son the opinion of others. VIRGINIA WOOLF,
/ pursuing power otherwise, let's have vir-
A Room of One's Own (1929), 3.
tue. EURIPIDES, The Phoenician Women (c.
111. Every great and original writer, in
411-409 B.C.), tr. Elizabeth Wyckoff.
proportion as he is great and original, must
10. A small demerit extinguishes a long
himself create the taste by which he is to be
service. THOMAS FULLER, M.D., Gnomo-
relished. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, preface
logia (1732), 404.
to 2nd edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800).
11. As a single leaf turns not yellow but
\with the silent knowledge of the whole tree,
so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without
WRONG
the hidden will of you all. KAHLIL GIBRAN,
See 297. Error: 474. Injury: 475. Injustice;
"On Crime and Punishment," The Prophet
1063. Wrongdoing
(1923).
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