human
By God and man dishonoured, By death and life made vain, Know ye the old Barbarian, The Barbarian come again.
gpt
By your endurance ye shall make your souls your own. If the origin of this saying were unknown, one could fancy much ingenious conjecture about it; but no one, I think, would attribute it to an English source. An Englishman's idea of self-realization is action. If he is to be truly himself he must be doing something; life for him means energy. To be laid on one side, and to exist only as a spectator or a sufferer, is the last method of making his soul his own which would occur to him. _Dolce far niente_ is a phrase which could never have originated on English soil. The greater the difficulties by which he is confronted, the more gnawing becomes the Englishman's, hunger for action.
human
Something must be done! is his instinctive cry when dangers or perplexities arise, and he is feverishly eager to do it. What exactly
gpt
should be, and how it may be most wisely done, are secondary, and even tertiary, considerations.
human
Wisdom is profitable to direct
gpt
That was a splendid speech of Blower's! I feel now that we are on the right line ; or,
human
After what Bellowell said last night, there can be no going back to the discredited policy ? The man-in-the-street did not realize that Blower's words are only articulated air, or that Bellowell could speak with equal effect whether his brief were to defend Belgium or to annex her. But alike the Englishman who acts and the Englishman who talks look askance on the people who think. Our national history is a history of action, in religion, in politics, in war, in discovery. It is only now and then that an Englishman can allow himself a moment for contemplation, for the endeavour to