 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
 | 1898 - 166 pages
...ROBERT GOULD SHAW, FRIENDS, COMRADES, KINSMEN, WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY, THIS FIELD IS DKDICATED. 11 Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a...to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.'" *THATCHER MAGOUN. —Born in Medford, Sept. 5, 1838 ; son of Thatcher and Martha (Tufts) Magoun. Immediately... | |
 | Edwin Monroe Bacon - 1898 - 440 pages
...Friends, comrades, kinsmen who died for their country, this field is dedicated by Henry Lee Higginson. Though love repine and reason chafe There came a voice without reply : "1 is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die. The picturesque low structure... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1899 - 246 pages
...infinitely greater worth than that of the most luxurious and careless epicure of the Roman court. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die.'" But, however we may cling to these persuasions, the fact remains unshaken that it is an easy thing... | |
 | Arthur Stanwood Pier - 1899 - 310 pages
...flippancy, and she found it in her heart to correct him. She quoted in a careful, sing-song voice, " 'Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' " " So you have seen the monument on Soldiers' Field ? " said Palatine, feeling sure that she had come... | |
 | William Bramwell Powell, Louise Connolly - 1899 - 336 pages
...abide, the huge world will come round to him. 46. 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. 47. The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.... | |
 | Adolf Augustus Berle - 1899 - 344 pages
...distinctive thing which allies a man's ability to do with his ability to think. When Emerson wrote, " Tis man's perdition to be safe when for the truth he ought to die," he gave birth to a majestic philosophic truth, a product of the academic spirit and habit. And the... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1899 - 350 pages
...Some time during those seven years of solitude and torment, he awoke to the great fact that " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Mere existence he could purchase with the base coin of cowardice or casuistry ; but that would be,... | |
 | William Garrott Brown - 1899 - 220 pages
...THEIR COUNTRY THIS FIELD IS DEDICATED BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON THOUOH LOVE KEPINE AND REASON CHAFE THEKK CAME A VOICE WITHOUT REPLY 'TIS MAN'S PERDITION TO BE SAFE WHEN FOK THE TRUTH HE OUGHT TO DIE In 1893-4 a locker building was erected on Soldier's Field by subscriptions... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 886 pages
...or reprimand ; 'Twill soon be dark ; Up ! mind thine own aim and God save the mark ! "—ToJ. W. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' " — Saerifice. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low,... | |
 | National Society for the Study of Education - 1900 - 1068 pages
...when we read Emerson's lines, Let Love repine or Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, fis man's perdition to be safe When for the Truth he ought to die. and apply them in any concrete case, we know that there are many whom " the voice " never reaches,... | |
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