Ecclesiastes 6
Expositor'sEcclesiastes 6:1-12
Ecclesiastes 6:9 Perhaps the inherent force of a nature is shown even more in its passive and negative than in its active and positive self-expressions. In its power of voluntarily limiting its own horizon; of setting itself arbitrary boundaries; of saying ‘Thus far will I go, see, admit, and no further’. For it takes a lot of latent strength to sit, either mentally or physically, really still. Not to fidget. To ‘stay put,’ in short. — Lucas Malet’s Wages of Sin, book iv. v. Not until a man has rid himself of all pretension, and taken refuge in mere unembellished existence, can he gain that peace of mind which is the foundation of human happiness. — Schopenhauer. You may paddle all day long; but it is when you come back at nightfall and look in at the familiar room, that you find Love or Death awaiting you beside the stove; and the most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. — R. L. Stevenson. References.— VI. 12.— Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. xlii. No. 2462. VII. 1.— Ibid. vol. xxvii. No. 1588.