WIST Quotations

Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 101 (1725)

Dave — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:39:29 +0000

Since Joys are so uncertain; take Gladness when it comes.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 101 (1725)
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Buechner, Frederick -- The Hungering Dark (1969)

Dave — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:38:24 +0000

Your calling is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner (b. 1926) American minister, author
The Hungering Dark (1969)

~Other -- Yale song (c. 1900)

Dave — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:30:30 +0000

Bright college years, with pleasure rife,
The shortest, gladdest, years of life,
How bright will seem through memory’s haze,
Those happy, golden, bygone days.

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Yale song (c. 1900)

Addison, Joseph -- Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

Dave — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 02:25:32 +0000

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381
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Bible, Vol. 1. Old Testament -- Book 24. Jeremiah 31:13 (Jer 31:12) [tr. NJB (1985)]

Dave — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:37:07 +0000

I shall change their mourning into gladness, comfort them, give them joy after their troubles.

The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 24. Jeremiah 31:13 (Jer 31:12) [tr. NJB (1985)]
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Alternate translations:

For I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
[tr. KJV (1611)]

I will comfort them and turn their mourning into joy,
their sorrow into gladness.
[tr. GNT (1976)]

I will turn their mourning into joy;
I will comfort them and give them gladness for sorrow.
[tr. NRSV (1989 ed.)]

I will turn their mourning to joy,
I will comfort them and cheer them in their grief.
[tr. RJPS (2023 ed.)]

Johnson, Samuel -- Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

Dave — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:03:43 +0000

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58
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