 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 243by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 pages
...is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." Or again this : — " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply : ' 'Tis man's perdition to be sate, When for the truth he ought to die.' " Excellent ! but how seldom do we get from him a strain... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 394 pages
...— JUDGES v. 18. THOUGH Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. RW EMERSON. COME say that the age of chivalry is past. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 402 pages
...people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. — JUDGES v. 18. THOUGH Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. RW EMERSON. COME say that... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 pages
...is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.' Or again this : — ' Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." ' Excellent ! but how seldom do we get from him a strain blown so clearly and firmly ! Take another... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 232 pages
...is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.' Or again this : — ' Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply : " "Pis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." ' Excellent ! but how seldom... | |
 | Charles Henry Ham - 1886 - 450 pages
...conduct. The hero is an honest man, that's all. "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." If all men were heroes — honest— there would be no occasion for heroism. If all education can be... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1886 - 810 pages
...more true of Christ: "Though love repine, and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply, 'Tls man's perdition to be safe. When for the truth he ought to die." The truth for which Christ died was truth Internal to the nature of God ; not simply truth externalized... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1886 - 352 pages
...sits fast his fate To mold his fortunes, mean or great. I ehare the good with every flower. 'TIs mim's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. Heartily know, When half-gods go The gods arrive. This passing moment Is an edifice Which the Omnipotent... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1897 - 878 pages
...tablets in Memorial Hall — andbelowthem runs Emerson's quatrain, chosen for this use by Lowell : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." The lines read calmly enough on a page of a book, with other qiutrains crowding them, but on that stone... | |
 | 1897 - 992 pages
...tablets in Memorial Hall — and below them runs Emerson's quatrain, chosen for this use by Lowell : Though love repine and reason chafe. There came a...reply — " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When (or the truth he ought to die." The lines read calmly enough on a page of a book, with other quatrains... | |
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