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Jul
2

Do You Like Quotations?

Do You Like Quotations? There are those who make the case for quotations. I simply enjoy them, since I like a well turned phrase, and if it holds a nugget of wisdom or inspiration- so much the better. I suppose some find quotes of nominal interest, but for those who collect, or simply enjoy, the occasional fine quote. I am giving your a few gems today. “I walk many times in the pleasant fields of the Holy Scriptures, where...
Nov
9

November

November Autumn Is Ended ~J. Hazard Hartzell~ DOWN drop the painted leaves; The world lies stripped and wounded, cold and bare; Piled are the golden sheaves; And past is every object sweet and fair. Now faded are the flowers And grass on sloping hills and tranquil dales; And songless are the bowers Where lovers came and breathed their secret tales. The fruits are ripe and gone; The fields have lost their wealth...
Sep
22

The Little Prince Learns Something

The Little Prince Learns Something I did not read ‘Little Prince‘ books when I was young. In fact there are a good many classic books that I had seemed to overlook, somehow. Madeleine books, Babar, Anatole -these are the ones I was familiar with. It is with pleasure I came across this story and the truths it reveals, and wanted to share it with you… The Little Prince and the Fox Written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint...
Apr
5

Importance of History

studying history is intellectually enriching and challenging. The most thought-provoking history asks the “why” questions. Why did the McGuffey Eclectic Readers become so popular in the 19th century? Why were women in colonial America taught to read, but less often to write? Answering questions like these moves us to think about literacy as no other form of inquiry can. ~Michael L....
Oct
11

Autumn Thought

…Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure, I’d face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good, ‘Tis true the stuff I bring for sale Is not so brisk a brew as ale: Out of a stem that scored the hand I wrung it in a weary land. But take it: if the smack is...
Feb
10

Quoted: True and False Politeness

Quoted: True and False Politeness True and False Politeness [by F.E.W. Harper] False politeness can cast a glamour over fashionable follies and popular vices and shrink from uttering unpalatable truths, when truth is needed more than flattery. True politeness, tender as love and faithful as truth, values intrinsic worth more than artificial surroundings. It will stem the current of the world’s disfavor, rather than float ignobly on...
Mar
26

High Noon

The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. – Michael...
Mar
7

Thoughts I Feel Like Thinking Upon

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins GLORY be to God for dappled things, For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow, For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced, fold, fallow and plough, And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange, Whatever is fickle, freckled (who...
Mar
3

Two from Jane Kenyon

The Bat by Jane Kenyon I was reading about rationalism, the kind of thing we do up north in early winter, where the sun leaves work for the day at 4:15 Maybe the world is intelligible to the rational mind; and maybe we light the lamps at dusk for nothing… Then I heard the wings overhead. The cats and I chased the bat in circles—living room, kitchen, pantry, kitchen, living room… At every turn...
Dec
13

Self Interest

A selection of quotations. “Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?” – Alan Keyes “Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”-John Maynard Keynes “The cause of...
Nov
13

Thankful and Hopeful Quotes

Thankful and Hopeful Quotes “Be of good cheer, my brother, for I feel the bottom, and it is sound.” ~Mr. Hopeful, in Pilgrim’s Progress “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” ~ C S Lewis, Mere Christianity The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful, and has nobody to thank...
Nov
12

The Prediction

“The journalists who get chills when he speaks will likely discover that he is a young and inexperienced president facing difficult domestic and international problems that don’t easily yield to eloquence.” – David Boaz, Cato Institute. In dribs and drabs the realizations, the obvious, are finally beginning to seep out. And the reality of the Democrat controlled Congress bodes even...
Aug
20

Poetry for an August Evening

These bursting yellow pears I hold, In burning hands so lately cold, My quiet autumn day confound; I feel my fingers pressing round In quick delight – old thoughts renew… Ah, who’s to say when summer’s through? ~ E. F. Weisslitz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ August August rushes by like desert rainfall; A flood of frenzied upheaval, Expected, But still catching me...
Apr
27

The Power of Little Things

A little hint dropped there or here, Is like a seed in spring of year; It sprouts and grows, and none may say How big ’twill be some future day. - Thornton W. Burgess, Bowser the Hound It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop...
Jan
27

Quotes for the Head of the Year

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison I suppose when it comes right down to it, we garden because it’s an old cold world, and sometimes the best a person can do is to give it children and some green things growing. ~ Rebecca Rupp It’s hard to make a comeback… when you haven’t been anywhere. Liberty exists in...

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