John Sullivan Dwight
John Sullivan Dwight (13 May 1813 – 5 September 1893) was a Unitarian minister, transcendentalist and was America's first influential classical music critic.
Quotes
[edit]- Work, and thou wilt bless the day
Ere the toil be done;
They that work not, can not pray,
Can not feel the sun.
God is living, working still,
All things work and move;
Work, or lose the power to will,
Lose the power to love.- Working.
Rest
[edit]Note: This poem is often attributed to Goethe.
- Is not true leisure
One with true toil?- Stanza 1. Compare: "Absence of occupation is not rest", William Cowper, Retirement, line 623.
- Rest is not quitting
The busy career,
Rest is the fitting
Of self to one's sphere.- Stanza 4.
- 'T is the brook's motion,
Clear without strife,
Fleeing to ocean
After its life.- Stanza 5.
- 'T is loving and serving
The Highest and Best!
'T is onwards! unswerving,
And that is true rest.- Stanza 7.
