Archive for December 2008

In the Face of the Sun

Solitude has but few sacrifices to make, and may be innocent, but can hardly be greatly virtuous like Abraham, like Job, like the Roman Regulus or the Apostle Paul. Great actions, from their nature, are not done in the closet; they are performed in the face of the sun, and in behalf of the world… [...]

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The True Genius

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. E. A. Poe

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