In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained : know'st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,
"I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner and outface the brow
Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviours from the great,
Grow great by your example and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution.
And hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings they enjoy to guard.
REST
(See also Repose)
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease:
Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace
Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
Wm. R. Alger—Oriental Poetry. A Leader
to Repose.
Silken rest
Tie all thy cares up!
O! quid solutis est beatius curis!
Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino
Lahore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum
Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto.
Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.
O, what is more sweet than when the mind,
set free from care, lays its burden down; and,
when spent with distant travel, we come back
to our home, and rest our limbs on the wishedfor bed? This, this alone, repays such toils as
these!
Absence of occupation is not rest;
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Rest is not quitting the busy career;
Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.
John S. Dwight—True Rest. (From his
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Is not true leisure one with true toil?
John S. Dwight—True Rest.
Amidst these restless thoughts this rest I find,
For those that rest not here, there's rest behind.
Thomas Gataker—B. D. Nat. 4. Sept.,
1574.
On every mountain height
Is rest.
Goethe—Ein Gleiches.
Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit! rest thee now!
Mrs. Hemans—Siege of Valencia. Dirge. Sc.
9.
Thomas Middleton. Title of a Play.
Da requiem; requietus ager bene credita reddit.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a
bountiful crop.
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. II. 351.
Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's victory won,
Now cometh rest.
Dr. Edward Hazen Parker—Funeral Ode
on President Garfield. Claimed for him by
his brother in Notes and Queries, May 25,
1901. P. 406. Claimed by Mrs. John
Mills, for John Mills of Manchester,
1878. Appears in the Life of John Mills
with account of origin. See Notes and
Queries. Ser. 9. Vol. IV. P. 167. Also
Vol. VII. P. 406.
Master, I've filled my contract, wrought in Thy
many lands;
Not by my sins wilt Thou judge me, but by the
work of my hands.
Master, I've done Thy bidding, and the light is
low in the west,
And the long, long shift is over . . . Master,
I've earned it—Rest.
Robert Service—Song of the Wage Slave.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 6. L. 33.
Who, with a body filled and vacant mind,
Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread.
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly
please.
Spenser—Faerie Queene. Bk. I. Canto LX
St. 40.
Arcuro intensio frangit, animum remissio.
Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation
relieves the mind.
Syrus—Maxims.
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds,
Is one with Prayer.
Bayard Taylor—Temptation of Hassan Ben
Khaled. St. 4.
