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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:7165
AUTHOR:John Sullivan Dwight (1813–1893)
QUOTATION:Rest is not quitting
  The busy career,
Rest is the fitting
  Of self to one’s sphere.
ATTRIBUTION:Rest. 1 Stanza 4.
 
Note 1.
See Cowper, page 415: Absence of occupation is not rest.

This poem is often attributed to Goethe. [back]
 

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