Oliver Wendell HolmesОливер Уэнделл Холмс
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
6. Важно не то место, которое мы занимаем, а то направление, в котором мы движемся.
6. What matters is not the place we occupy, but the direction in which we are moving.
From The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table · close to the original (more).
Holmes’s own wordsI find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (Atlantic Monthly 1857-58; book 1858), ch. IV; Boston, Osgood, 1873, ch. IV, after the quotation from Sir Thomas Browne.
Close. Tolstoy drops 'I find' and 'in this world' and sharpens 'not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving' to 'not the place we occupy but the direction in which we move'; he stops before the sailing image. The Jubilee name index takes «Гольмс» for Oliver Wendell Holmes, correctly. Holmes's words are printed here, without 'in this world'.