Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. Complete Works - Page 98by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, I There came a voice without reply, — I ' 'T is man's perdition to be safe, ; When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
| 1888 - 1008 pages
...grandeur is our dust. So nigh is God to man, When Duty whispers low, then must, The youth replies, / can. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe. There came a voice without reply, — "V is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die ! For simple and pure delight... | |
| 1919 - 644 pages
...the inflexible and uncompromising course which he has pursued since last March ? HENRY LEE HIGGINSON Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply — " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." r|^HESE are the familiar... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1872 - 758 pages
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely... | |
| 1872 - 760 pages
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 pages
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely... | |
| Edward Augustus Warriner - 1875 - 420 pages
...caritas." AUGUSTINE. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply — 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." EMERSON. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. ff TIL::.:: i rx>AT:j:-"S E 1. HL Entered according to Act of Congress,... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pages
...remedies. It is the source of many evils, but also of much good; of an unspeakable courage and devotion. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply : 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die.' And though apparently the amount... | |
| Almira Leach Hayward - 1880 - 300 pages
...strong. At thought of that insatiate grave From which its yearnings cannot save. WC Bryant. January 5. Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply — "'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die." Jt. W. Emerson. Men's lives,... | |
| 1880 - 672 pages
...might have written : " Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime." Notice the power of this quatrain : " Though love repine, and reason chafe, .There came a voice without reply — ' 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, "When for the truth he ought to die.' " The poem entitled "... | |
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