{"id":7314,"date":"2015-03-10T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T07:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/10\/courage-3\/"},"modified":"2015-03-10T07:02:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T07:02:40","slug":"courage-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/10\/courage-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">One can always get through one day to the next \u2014 except for one day.&#0160; And one will get through that one too.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Thus an aphorism of mine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">In the vicinity of the same sentiment, here are a couple of lines from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/20655932?sid=21106072799063&amp;uid=3739552&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=4&amp;uid=3739256\" target=\"_self\"> a verse<\/a> found in Goethe&#39;s literary remains:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Mut verloren \u2014 alles verloren!<br \/>Da w\u00e4r es besser, nicht geboren!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">To lose courage is to lose everything, in which case it would have been better never to have been born.&#0160; A few stabs at rhyme-preserving translation:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Of courage shorn, of everything shorn!<br \/>In that case better, never to have been born!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Courage lost&#0160;\u2014 everything lost!<br \/>Then having been born&#39;s too high a cost!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Loss of courage,&#0160; something fatal!<br \/>Better then, never natal!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Loss of heart&#0160;\u2014 loss of all!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#39;Twould then have been better, not to be at all!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can always get through one day to the next \u2014 except for one day.&#0160; And one will get through that one too. Thus an aphorism of mine. In the vicinity of the same sentiment, here are a couple of lines from a verse found in Goethe&#39;s literary remains: Mut verloren \u2014 alles verloren!Da w\u00e4r &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/10\/courage-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Courage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,40,531,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-literary-matters","category-translations","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}