| 1-Jan |
New
years resolutions - The glass house of good
intentions is helpless before the rockslide of self interest
-"
Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
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| 2-Jan |
Castles
of the mind - teaching us the undeniable truth that nothing is more
fragile, destructs more completely, nor requires more effort to
rebuild than broken dreams and shattered expectations
-
William Everyman |
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| 3-Jan |
Castles
of the mind - Sanctuaries into which men retreat from the advancing
and inexorable army of real life
- William Everyman |
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| 4-Jan |
Castles
of the mind - protected by the drawbridge of isolation wherein sit
Kings of little Kingdoms, paupers in robes wove of opine treachery
- William Everyman |
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| 5-Jan |
There
is no joy that a parent may know that can equal this - the eager
and willing mind of his own progeny
- William
Everyman |
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| 6-Jan |
The
myth of self reliance is as a vapor before God's oven door, before
which we stand, hat in hand, for our daily bread
- " Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
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| 7-Jan |
Any
man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind -
- John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent
Occasions |
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| 8-Jan |
You
and I may understand the universe but we have a great deal of difficulty
understanding ourselves and our personal motivations - after all
- the most distant star in the universe is more clear than the murky
light of self inquisition
- William Everyman |
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| 9-Jan |
On
the thought of taking care of parents - Filial
duty nowadays means to be able to support one's parents. But we
support even dogs and horses. If there is no feeling of reverence,
wherein lies the difference?
- Confucius,
Analects |
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| 10-Jan |
They
are not long, the days of wine and roses
- Ernest Dowson,
" Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam " |
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| 11-Jan |
If
you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you may prove
the doubting spirit which may be the only hindrance to the boon
you ask
- Dwight
L. Moody |
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| 12-Jan |
Actions
are the grains of sand in the great hourglass of time that mark
the important little destinies in the affairs of man -
- William Everyman |
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| 13-Jan |
The
owl at sea, the pelican in the desert, both are miserable -
-
" Whispers from God "
,
William Everyman |
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| 14-Jan |
The
more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence
increase -
- Lao-tzu, Tao-te ching |
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| 15-Jan |
Praise
shames me, for I secretly beg for it -
- Rabindranath
Tagore, Stary Birds |
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| 16-Jan |
As
soon as you matriculate in the University of life you discover that
one of the required courses is called trouble -
- John A. Redhead, Putting Your Faith
To Work |
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| 17-Jan |
It
is forbidden to kill ; therefore all murderers are punished unless
they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets -
- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary |
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| 18-Jan |
Zeal
without knowledge is fire without light -
- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia |
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| 19-Jan |
Everyman's
character is forged on the anvil of life by the Blacksmith of experience
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- William Everyman |
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| 20-Jan |
Those
who we love we do good things for , those with whom we are "
in love " , we can never do enough -
- William Everyman |
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| 21-Jan |
Unborn,
eternal, everlasting, this ancient one is not slain when the body
is slain -
- Bhagavad Gita, 2:20 |
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| 22-Jan |
Oh
Lord , if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul -
- Ernest Renan, Priere d'un Sceptique |
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| 23-Jan |
You
have as much chance becoming successful in this world by following
the " self help " books on " How to become a millionaire
" as does the man selling a full set of such books for the
price of room and board -
- Unknown |
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| 24-Jan |
The
beginning of greatness is certainty of purpose -
-
" Whispers from God ",
William
Everyman |
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| 25-Jan |
Mix
a little mystery with everything, and the very mystery arouses veneration
-
- Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Wordly Wisdom |
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| 26-Jan |
If
one man says to thee, " Thou art a Donkey, " do not mind;
if two speak thus, purchase a saddle . . .,
-
- Talmud, Bereshit Rabbbah 74:2 |
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| 27-Jan |
How
can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught
in the roller of an electric typewriter -
- Woody Allen, " Selections from the Allen Notebooks " |
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| 28-Jan |
True
happiness is often sacrificed on the alter of expediency -
- William Everyman |
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| 29-Jan |
The
granduer of space cannot be found by peering into a hole -
- William Everyman |
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| 30-Jan |
All
hope abandon, ye who enter here -
- Dante, Divine
Comedy: Inferno |
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| 31-Jan |
The
windows of our future are merely reflections of the mirrors of our
past
- William Everyman |
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February |
| 1-Feb |
Time
corrupts all things except the truth - "
Whispers from God ",
- William Everyman |
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| 2-Feb |
We
can do no great things - only small things with great love -
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Life in the Spirit |
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| 3-Feb |
Riches
are the instruments of all vices , because they render us capable
of putting even our worst desires into execution -
- St. Ambrose |
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| 4-Feb |
Science
may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy
for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings
- Hellen Keller - My Religion |
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| 5-Feb |
Clear
my feet of indolence, keeper of the path of men
-
Navajo Prayer
to the Mountain Spirit |
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| 6-Feb |
Welfare
Christians living in Evangelical ghettos
- "
Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
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| 7-Feb |
Magic
Christians manufactured in the cookie cutter church of Christianity
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- " Whispers from God ", William
Everyman |
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| 8-Feb |
Stir
not the fire with a sword, that is , do not provoke a man who is
already in a rage. It is better to give way, and soothe the fuming
spirit with gentle words
- Erasmus, Adages |
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| 9-Feb |
Success
is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest
from which the birds have flown
- Henry Ward Beecher, Life's Thoughts |
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| 10-Feb |
An
honest God is the noblest work of man
- Robert G. Ingersoll, " The Gods " |
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| 11-Feb |
Cursed
is every man who placeth his hope in man
- St. Augustine, On the Christian Conflict |
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| 12-Feb |
One
(man) was never married and that's his hell; another is and that
is his plague
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy |
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| 13-Feb |
On
Hinduism- Though destitute of virtues, or seeking
pleasure, or devoid of good qualities, yet a husband must be constantly
worshipped as a God by a faithful wife
- Laws
of Manu |
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| 14-Feb |
Think
not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you
worthy , directs your course
- Kahlil Gibran,
The Prophet |
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| 15-Feb |
A
man's true individuality is set free by the confines of the coffin
- William Everyman |
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| 16-Feb |
We
know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt enters
- Goethe Maxims |
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| 17-Feb |
The
master said, " You, shall I teach you what knowledge is ? When
you know a thing to recognize that you know it , and when you do
not know a thing to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge
- Confucius,
Analects |
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| 18-Feb |
A
dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. .
- Mu-mon, The Gateless Gate |
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| 19-Feb |
Even
a common man by obtaining becomes a Buddha
- Japanese Buddhist proverb |
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| 20-Feb |
The
newborn babe, the blushing bride, the proud grandmother, the ancient
ancestor, all share a common destiny
- William Everyman |
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| 21-Feb |
Today's
spark of genius is tomorrow's invention of convenience
-
"Whispers from God" ,
William Everyman |
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| 22-Feb |
A
man cannot grow wiser by simply wishing it so, nor can he grow wiser
without wishing it so
- William Everyman |
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| 23-Feb |
Loyalty
is a sentiment, not a law. It rests on love, not on restraint
- Sir Roger Casement, Speech at his trial for treason, 1916 |
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| 24-Feb |
Intellectual
claptrap, idiomatic jargon and a parallel Gospel inhabit the modern
day pulpit and the congregation is solely responsible
- "
Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
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| 25-Feb |
Love
is like a light left burning in the night - just waiting for someone
to move into its soft glow of generosity
- " Whispers from God " ,William
Everyman |
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| 26-Feb |
Everything
has been figured out except how to live
- Jean-Paul Sarte |
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| 27-Feb |
To
be human is to know and care and ask.
To keep rattling the bars of experience hollering, "
What's it for ?" at the stones and stars, and making prisons
and palaces out of the echoing answers
- Robert Fulghum, All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten |
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| 28-Feb |
We
have an inexhaustible gift for justification and a low tolerance
for sanctification
- "
Whispers from God " ,William Everyman |
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March |
| 1-Mar |
Justice
and mercy are uneasy bedfellows
- " Whispers from God" , William
Everyman |
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| 2-Mar |
No
man can firmly command save he who has learned gladly to obey
- Thomas a' Kempis, The imitation of Christ |
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| 3-Mar |
Christ
spent more than half His time with just twelve men, developing them
into leaders who would carry on his work. .
- Billy Graham, The Holy Spirit |
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| 4-Mar |
With
malice toward none, with charity for all. . . Let us achieve and
cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves , and with all
nations
- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural address , March 4, 1865 |
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| 5-Mar |
The
mouth of knowledge is ever subject to the bit of discretion
- "
Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
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| 6-Mar |
To
bring another man's behavior into conformance is one thing - to
alter his pattern of thought is quite another
- William Everyman |
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| 7-Mar |
What
is your life ? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time,
and then vanisheth away.
- Holy Bible, James 4:14 |
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| 8-Mar |
Out
of bondage - into a servitude of preference
- William Everyman |
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| 9-Mar |
Life
is real ! Life is earnest!
- Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, " A psalm of Life " |
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| 10-Mar |
He
that will learn to pray , let him go to sea
- George Herbert,
Jacula Prudentum |
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| 11-Mar |
See
there a man who prays for others without chance for reward, he is
as a sequoia among the pines
- "
Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
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| 12-Mar |
More
things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King |
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| 13-Mar |
He
who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who
is able to conquer himself is more powerful
- Lao-tzu, Tao-te ching |
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| 14-Mar |
He
is the best of men who dislikes power
- Muhammad |
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| 15-Mar |
God
is God - man is man - Hallelujah
- William Everyman |
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| 16-Mar |
Truth
is that thing which is left when you strip away what you think
- William Everyman |
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| 17-Mar |
The
origin of all wars is the pursuit of wealth, and we are forced to
pursue wealth because we live in slavery to the cares of the body
- Plato, Phaedo |
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| 18-Mar |
Let
none admire that riches grow in hell . .
- John Milton, Paradise Lost |
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| 19-Mar |
The
reward for stewardship is more stewardship - stewardship without
joy is a life sentence without chance of parole
- " Whispers from God ", William
Everyman |
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| 20-Mar |
We
have put the Koran in Arabic so that you may understand it
- Koran, 43:3 |
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| 21-Mar |
Woe
unto you also, ye lawyers ! For ye laden men with burdens grievous
to be borne, and ye yourself touch not the burdens with one of your
fingers
- Holy Bible,
Luke 12:46 |
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| 22-Mar |
Intellectual
assent is a poor substitute for a gut wrenching conversion experience
- William Everyman |
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| 23-Mar |
To
see God you must first look toward him - to look toward him you
must seek him where he is most likely to be found
-
" Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
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| 24-Mar |
Everything
bows to money . . .
- Erasmus, Adages |
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| 25-Mar |
There
is no divine authority for preaching that the soul flies out of
purgatory immediately as the money clinks in the till
- Martin Luther, Disputation on the power and efficacy of Indulgencences |
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| 26-Mar |
When
I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my
heart
- John Wesley |
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| 27-Mar |
This
is God's greatest gift , that he allows us a servitude of preference
- William Everyman |
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| 28-Mar |
Knowledge
is good, wisdom better, understanding better still
- William
Everyman |
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| 29-Mar |
Prayer
is to faith as oxygen is to life - putrefaction is the natural process
in the absence of either
- Unknown |
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| 30-Mar |
…
If the cost and fruits of war were well considered, peace with all
its inconveniences is generally preferable
- William Penn, Preface to George Fox's Journal |
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| 31-Mar |
Life
is like a flame of a lamp exposed to the wind
- Japanese Buddhist proverb |
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April |
| 1-Apr |
Wisdom
is the next of kin to knowledge
- William Everyman |
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| 2-Apr |
There
is no higher aspiration that a man may have than this - to love
God - nay - to be in love with God
-
" Whispers from God "
, William Everyman |
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| 3-Apr |
No
man can clasp the furnace of vengeance to his bosom without sacrifice,
first of all to himself
- William Everyman |
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| 4-Apr |
The
height of arrogance is a rich man making a poor man beg him for
a bone
- William Everyman |
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| 5-Apr |
A
man may not be proud and still fear God
- "
Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
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| 6-Apr |
When
a man treads upon the glowing coals of self aggrandizement, he had
better be very sure of his sandals
- William Everyman |
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|
7-Apr |
All
around I see Nothing pretending to be something, Emptiness pretending
to be Fullness.
- Confucius, Analects |
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|
8-Apr |
The
wise man knows at the commencement of a matter what the end will
be .
- Talmud, Y. Sotah 5, end |
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| 9-Apr |
Trust
in Allah - but tie your camel first.
- Muhammad |
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|
10-Apr |
Here
is a conundrum - shame follows closely upon the heels of pride
- therefore doubling the cost of haughtiness
-
" Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
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11-Apr |
Do
not turn thy cheek in scorn, nor walk insolently on the earth;
Allah does not love an arrogant boaster.
- Koran, 31:18 |
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12-Apr |
The
smallest of intellects usually have the most arrogant opinions
and will most times refuse exhortation - preferring the laziness
of their own self deceits over the effort required to deal with
an iconoclast.
- William Everyman |
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| 13-Apr |
A
religion that requires persecution to sustain it is the devil's
propagation
- Hosea Ballou |
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| 14-Apr |
A
man alone is either a saint or a devil
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy |
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| 15-Apr |
Alone,
alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint
took pity on my soul in agony
- William Taylor Coleridge, "The rime of the ancient mariner" |
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| 16-Apr |
Solitude
vivifies, isolation kills
- Joseph Roux,
Meditations of a Parish Priest |
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| 17-Apr |
Why
should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way ?
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden |
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| 18-Apr |
Before
the fountains, before the fields and valleys, before the compass
was put in the Heavens and the foundation of the Earth was laid,
before all this - I heard him call my name, and in the dim recess
of a'-priori existence
his voice glides through the labyrinth of time
- "
Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
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| 19-Apr |
The
first and wisest of them all confessed to know this only, that he
nothing knew
- John Milton, Paradise Regained |
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| 20-Apr |
Great
wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious
- Chuang-tzu, Character of Tao |
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| 21-Apr |
It
is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden |
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| 22-Apr |
The
chief success of the enemy is this - that he bathes our feet in
darkness so that we cannot see what we stumble over, else having
seen it for what it is we would turn aside
- William Everyman |
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| 23-Apr |
I
have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel - Julia
Ward Howe, "
- Battle Hymn Of The Republic " |
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| 24-Apr |
A
pricked conscience is like vinegar to the teeth or smoke in the
eyes, turn which way you will , you must ultimately remove the source
of the irritation
- William Everyman |
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| 25-Apr |
Free
men freely work; whoever fears God fears to sit at ease
- Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Aurora Leigh |
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| 26-Apr |
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