Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures

The dew of compassion is a tear.  – Byron – Compassion is the basis of all morality. – Schopenhauer – There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.              – Robert South –

For life is sweet, but after life is death, This is the end of every man’s disire.  – Swinburne – In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death. – Walt Whitman – We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune’s slaves, Yes, cease to die,by dying. – John…

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Bacon – Worthy books are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.           – Philip J. Bailey – In books likes the soul of…

Above all things, reverence yourself.  – Pythagoras – Every one stamps his own value on himself.  The price we challenge ourselves is given us. Man is made great or little by his own will. – Schiller – Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power. – Tennyson –

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.  – Nicholas Murray Butler He knew what’s what, and that’s as high As metaphysic wit can fly.  – Samuel Butler – It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so. – Josh Billings – Knowledge by suffering entereth, And…

On with the Dance! let joy be unconfined.  – Byron – And the dancing has begun now, And the danceres whirl round gaily in the waltz’s giddy mazes, and the ground beneath them trembles.  – Heine, Book of Songs – Come, knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round.  – Milton –…

_________________________________________________________ I’ll be watching the day to observe what I learn.  What I learn says more about me than what I know.  Isn’t that a fascinating measure?   Information is power.  – Arthur Sylvester The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds. – John F. Kennedy Forewarned, forearmed.  – Benjamin Franklin Knowledge…is the…

every day every moment a blank page upon which we write. mary anne radmacher

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