Posted on April 29, 2011, 11:29 pm, under
Quotations.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted on April 29, 2011, 11:28 pm, under
Quotations.
Character is higher than intellect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted on June 5, 2009, 4:12 pm, under
Quotations.
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroism
Posted on June 5, 2009, 4:08 pm, under
Quotations.
To be fortunate, be not too wise.
Posted on June 5, 2009, 4:07 pm, under
Quotations.
Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the door-latch they die outside.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man lives by belief; by logic he can only at best long to live.
Thomas Carlyle
WHY? and WHEREFORE?— God wot, simply THEREFORE! Ask not WHY; ’tis SITH thou hast to care for.
Thomas Carlyle
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas à Kempis
Posted on March 1, 2009, 8:05 pm, under
Quotations.
Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.
Hugh Latimer’s famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy.
Posted on January 22, 2009, 2:17 pm, under
Quotations.
SEVERN—I—lift me up, for I am dying. I shall die easy. Don’t be frightened! Thank God it has come.
John Keats