Quote#Courage
Let him to whose ears the low-voiced Best seems stilled by the clash…
Quote byThomas Hardy · 1840–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), "In Tenebris" ("De Profundus"), ll. 37-40 [https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=34399.
English (original)
Let him to whose ears the low-voiced Best seems stilled by the clash of the First, Who holds that if way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst, Who feels that delight is a delicate growth cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear, Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry; he disturbs the order here.
— Thomas Hardy
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