John Sullivan Dwight

John Sullivan Dwight (13 May 1813 – 5 September 1893) was a Unitarian minister, transcendentalist and was America's first influential classical music critic.

John Sullivan Dwight

Quotes

• Work, and thou wilt bless the day
  Ere the toil be done;
  They that work not, can not pray,
  Can not feel the sun.
  God is living, working still,
  All things work and move;
  Work, or lose the power to will,
  Lose the power to love.
  • Working.

Rest

Note: This poem is often attributed to Goethe.

• Is not true leisure
  One with true toil?
  • Stanza 1. Compare: "Absence of occupation is not rest", William Cowper, Retirement, line 623.

• Rest is not quitting
  The busy career,
  Rest is the fitting
  Of self to one's sphere.
  • Stanza 4.

• 'T is the brook's motion,
  Clear without strife,
  Fleeing to ocean
  After its life.
  • Stanza 5.

• 'T is loving and serving
  The Highest and Best!
  'T is onwards! unswerving,
  And that is true rest.
  • Stanza 7.

External links

• Detailed biography