{"id":7984,"date":"2016-07-07T13:56:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T17:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2016-07-07T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T17:56:52","slug":"he-who-waits-for-the-best-time-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7984","title":{"rendered":"He Who Waits For the Best Time to Act"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The hobbit at his table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of my life quotes, which I wish I could say I’ve actually given proper attention, is a verse from a song in the Rankin\/Bass version of The Hobbit<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“A man who’s a dreamer and never takes leave,
\nWho lives in a world that is just make-believe,
\nWill never know passion, will never know pain.
\nWho sits by the window will one day see rain.”<\/p>\n

It’s a\u00a0Glenn Yarbrough song, which you\u00a0can hear here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That verse is loosely related to a quote attributed by some to Martin Luther. “For truth and duty it is ever the fitting time<\/a>; who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.” As our readers often say, “That’s the truth,” but did Luther actually say this?<\/p>\n

The Quote Investigator doesn’t believe he did and has evidence to support his belief that another German theologian with a curiously similar name<\/a> is the one who first put this thought (in his own words) on paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my life quotes, which I wish I could say I’ve actually given proper attention, is a verse from a song in the Rankin\/Bass version of The Hobbit. “A man who’s a dreamer and never takes leave, Who lives in a world that is just make-believe, Will never know passion, will never know pain. … Continue reading He Who Waits For the Best Time to Act<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,10,14],"tags":[1782,2288,2898],"class_list":["post-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-nonfiction","category-religion","tag-martin-luther","tag-quotations","tag-the-hobbit"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}