WorkPythagoras
Golden Verses (traditional English translation of Pythagoras's nightly self-examination questions) Inferred
Pythagoras · traditional English translation of Pythagoras's nightly self-examination questions
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“Golden verses of Pythagoras, rather a pretty version thereof. "Let not soft slumbers close thine Eyes,”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
Substantial quoted passage of verse from Pythagoras's Golden Verses.
“What hast thou done that's worth the doing? / And what pursued that's worth pursuing? / What sought thou knewest thou shouldst shun? / What done thou shouldst have left undone?”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
Quoted engagement reproduces a full four-line stanza of the Pythagorean verses, a sustained passage implying the text was in hand.
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“Golden verses of Pythagoras, rather a pretty version thereof. "Let not soft slumbers close thine Eyes,”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).
“What hast thou done that's worth the doing? / And what pursued that's worth pursuing? / What sought thou knewest thou shouldst shun? / What done thou shouldst have left undone?”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred Fuller explicitly names 'the Pythagorean questions' then quotes the four-line self-examination verse traditionally rendered from the Golden Verses of Pythagoras Quoted engagement reproduces a full four-line stanza of the Pythagorean verses, a sustained passage implying the text was in hand.