Quote#Courage
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing…
Quote byHugh Kingsmill · 1889–1949
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Matthew Arnold (1928) p. 89.
English (original)
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.
— Hugh Kingsmill
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