The Rhythm of Life and other Essays
The Rhythm of Life and other Essays
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ult of this young
ignorance. So is the early hope of great achievement. Life seems
so long, and its capacity so great, to one who knows nothing of all
the intervals it needs must hold--intervals between aspirations,
between actions, pauses as inevitable as the pauses of sleep. And
life looks impossible to the young unfortunate, unaware of the
inevitable and unfailing refreshment. It would be for their peace
to learn that there is a tide in the affairs of men, in a sense more
subtle--if it is not too audacious to add a meaning to Shakespeare--
than the phrase was meant to contain. Their joy is flying away from
them on its way home; their life will wax and wane; and if they
would be wise, they must wake and rest in its phases, knowing that
they are ruled by the law that commands all things--a sun's
revolutions and the rhythmic pangs of maternity.
DECIVILISED
The difficulty of dealing--in the course of any critical duty--with decivilised man lies in this: when you accuse him of vulgarity--
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