WordsToLiveBy
Play Video On YouTube #WordsToLiveBy Circa 1750s Expanded Citations Version Standards Of Excellence
Art thou dejected?
Is thy mind o'ercast?
To chase thy gloom,
Go fix some weighty truth;
Chain down some passion; do some generous good;
Teach Ignorance to see, or Grief to smile;
Correct thy friend; befriend thy greatest foe;
Be just in all things; make amends
For follies past, and, with warm heart,
Forgive, and be forgiven. Let work not words
Thy virtue prove. Go act as well as prate,
And then thy counsels will be strong,
Thy reprimands avail. —ANON
THE province of the historian is to gather the threads of the past ere they elude forever his grasp and weave them into a harmonious web to which the art preservative may give immortality. Therefore he who would rescue from fast gathering oblivion the deeds of a community and send them on to futurity in an imperishable record should deliver a plain unvarnished tale.[1][2]
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Published in poem "Blank Verse" form from 1742 to 1745 by Rev. Edward Young.[3] These words then appear future time forward in many publications in transverse and slightly modified forms. This includes the publication that I find most relevant in today's modern era technological world.[4] This above quote of Young's work is found in a history book that has removed any religious references and then has been credited to source anonymous. Then proceeds to describe in the following above paragraph the intent of virtue/integrity/morality of the authors upon the entire published history. [ Read On From Linking to Book Source ]. There is a very important ideal said of immortality that should be highly considered in the modern-day application of these words.
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As these words have been replicated in many publications, this forms a collection of works from various authors and sources. These are currently already digitized online with I am sure more publications to be added into the available online collection. A baseline of returned search results day to day shows there is a progression in new works being added to this published body of work that Young's words seemed to resonate in that day of educated literacy removing and freeing ignorance from the masses.
These can be easily found by quoted Google books search, [ "Go Fix Some Weighty Truth" ] [5].
There has been found a smaller subset of publications where brevity seems to be placed of this quotation and found usually containing at least line 5, [ "Teach Ignorance to see, or Grief to smile" ][6]
It has been my conclusion since my first discovery of these words appearing online from approximately the early 2000s when a general web search of "Go Fix Some Weighty Truth" returned perhaps less than 10 matches. Notably, in my Urbandictionary definition "Cybermark",[7] December 28th, 2006, I have used the cited example:
"The phrase "Teach Ignorance To See; or Grief To Smile" is an observed expressed thought that historically appears in the writings and documents of many individuals relating to issues of morality and ethics for centuries. The individuals do not appear to be related or known to each other. As more of these documents become publicly visible onto the Internet, this phrase becomes an identifiable cybermark that links all of the historical and current usages of these documents and these individuals together in a unified group that has found unity in a "common bond" by the repetitive expression of this cybermark ideal."
These are WordsToLiveBy then and now. Thank you for applying these into your daily knowledge and daily practice. These are highly important words of virtue that somehow in the modern era we have lost our common reasoning.
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Does anyone researching this, under the term "Complaint" see any need to complain about this as placed here at WikiWorld for any any any any reason? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Where would your common reasoning for substantially altering or deleting these messages here be? These should stay forever here and forever to all time human history. Thank you.
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Here Are Four Screen Snapshots Of The Google Books Page Examples Of The Usage Of These Words by A Google Search "Go Fix Some Weighty Truth":[9].
