...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...quatrain is a poem in itself, — an epic poem : " Though love repine, and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply, — 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the trutit, he ought to die." The reason that such grand utterances as these thrill us with unwonted emotion...

...an epic poem : " Though love repine, and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply, — 'Tit man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." The reason that such grand utterances as these thrill us with unwonted emotion is to be found in our...

...else in the experience of the Predecessor assigned him. He will hardly echo Emerson's belief that " "Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die,"but should he follow Emerson's further suggestion for "the crisis of existence," " See that you...

...through snow, Where way is none, 't will creep and wind And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — ' 'T is man's perdition to he safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely...