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    A Psalm of Life


    What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist.


    Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

    Life is but an empty dream!

    For the soul is dead that slumbers,

    And things are not what they seem.

    Life is real! Life is earnest!

    And the grave is not its goal;

    Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

    Was not spoken of the soul.

    Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

    Is our destined end or way;

    But to act, that each to-morrow

    Find us farther than to-day.

    Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

    And our hearts, though stout and brave,

    Still, like muffled drums, are beating

    Funeral marches to the grave.

    In the world’s broad field of battle,

    In the bivouac of Life,

    Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

    Be a hero in the strife!

    Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

    Let the dead Past bury its dead!

    Act,— act in the living Present!

    Heart within, and God o’erhead!

    Lives of great men all remind us

    We can make our lives sublime,

    And, departing, leave behind us

    Footprints on the sands of time;

    Footprints, that perhaps another,

    Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

    A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

    Seeing, shall take heart again.

    Let us, then, be up and doing,

    With a heart for any fate;

    Still achieving, still pursuing,

    Learn to labor and to wait.


    ...:::...

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Najviša vrlina duše je spoznati Boga, ili razumjeti stvari u trećoj - najvišoj - vrsti spoznaje.
    Ova vrlina postaje veća što više duša prepoznaje stvari na ovaj način spoznaje;
    posljedično, onaj tko razumije stvari na ovaj način spoznaje
    postiže najviše ljudsko savršenstvo i prema tome ispunjen je najvećom radošću,
    praćenom predodžbama o sebi i o vrlini.
    Iz ove vrste znanja proizlazi najveći mogući duševni mir.

    💫

    Jasno koliko je mudar čovjek superiorniji od neznalice
    i moćniji od onoga koji je vođen samo prohtjevima.
    Jer neuka osoba ne samo da je na mnoge načine vođena vanjskim uzrocima,
    i nikada ne postiže istinski duševni mir,
    nego također živi u neznanju o sebi, Bogu i stvarima,
    i kao što njegova patnja prestaje, njegovo postojanje također prestaje;
    dok mudar čovjek, kao takav, jedva da osjeća ikakvo uzbuđenje u svom duhu,
    ali nikada ne prestaje biti u, da tako kažemo, potrebnoj spoznaji o sebi, Bogu i stvarima,
    i uvijek uživa istinski duševni mir.
    Čak i ako se put koji sam zabilježio da vodi tamo čini vrlo teškim, ipak se može pronaći.
    Međutim, može biti teško jer se tako rijetko nalazi. Jer kako bi moglo biti da,
    kad bi spasenje bilo pri ruci i ako bi se moglo pronaći bez mnogo truda, da bi ga gotovo svi zanemarili?
    Međutim, sve uzvišeno teško je i rijetko.

    ...:::...

    Baruh Spinoza (17.st.)

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