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" Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. "
Report of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools of the City of Washington - Page 70
by District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - 1888
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The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, Volume 1

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...Else 't is no rest Wouldst behold beauty "' Near thee ? all round ? Only hath duty Such a sight found. Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'T is the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean After its life. Deeper devotion Nowhere...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1876 - 516 pages
...all his fellow-workers in the gospel in every age, " Do the work of an evangelist." WE WINKS. 'REST." REST is not quitting The busy career ; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'Tis the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean After its life. 'Tis loving and serving...
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Or, the Christian Graces

Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon - Christian life - 1842 - 164 pages
...in life's young day, From the evils to come was taken away, — Forever taken away.' CHAPTER IV. ' REST is not quitting The busy career ; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'Tis loving and serving The Highest and Best ! 'Tis onward! unswerving, And that is true rest.' ' MY...
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Or, the Christian Graces

Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon - Christian life - 1842 - 164 pages
...life's young day, From the evils to come was taken away,— Forever taken away.' CHAPTER IV. JDmce. • REST is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'Tis loving and serving The Highest and Best! 'Tis onward! unswerving, And that is true rest.' 1 MY...
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Perennial Flowers

Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...Else 't is no rest. Would'st behold beauty Near thee,— all round? Only hath Duty Such a sight found. Rest is not quitting The busy career : Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'Tis the brook's motion, Clear, without strife, Flowing. to ocean After its life. Deeper devotion Nowhere...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 112

American periodicals - 1872 - 858 pages
...unsullied breast, These weary and heavy-laden ones Remember His offered Rest. Mat xi, 28. ' ADW REST. REST is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'Tis the brook's motion. Clear without strife; Fleeing to ocean After its life. 'Tis loving and serving...
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Voices of the True-hearted

American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...Else 'tis no rest. Wouldst behold beauty Near thee ? all round ? Only hath duty Such a sight found. Rest is not quitting The busy career ; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'Tis the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean After its life. Deeper devotion Nowhere...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 10

American periodicals - 1846 - 636 pages
...Would'st behold beauty Near thee, all round? Only hath duty Such a sight found. Rest is not quilting The busy career, Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 'Tis the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean After its life. Deeper devotion Nowhere...
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Hymns for the Church of Christ

Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns, English - 1853 - 674 pages
...'t is no rest. 3 Wouldst behold beauty Near thee ? all round ? Only hath duty Such a sight found. 4 Rest is not quitting The busy career ; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. 5 'T is the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean After its life. 6 Deeper devotion...
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Advocate and Family Guardian, Volume 21

1855 - 214 pages
...life seems a fit exemplification of the sentiment expressed in the beautiful lines of Goethe : — " Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of >elf to its sphere. "Tig the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeting to ocean After its life....
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