Quote of the Day, 12/10/08

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“And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” — F.S. Fitzgerald

Quote of the Day, 12/8/08

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“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.” — Aristotle

Quote of the Day, 12/5/08

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“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.” — B. Pascal

Quote of the Day, 12/3/08

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“History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. It is always hungry for bread, sweaty with labor, struggling to wrest from nature and hostile men enough to feed its children. The welfare of the mass is always at odds with the selfish force of the strong. The exodus of the Roman plebeians and the Pennsylvania coal strike, the agrarian agitation of the Gracchi and the rising of the Russian peasants ”” it is all the same tragic human life.” — W. Rauschenbusch

Quote of the Day, 12/1/08

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“Healing is precisely what Jesus promises. He promises to heal those who would be healed. His healing is not trite, never easy””there is always a cross to bear if you follow him. But, oh!””the healing he brings to his people, some of whom never suspect it.” — Rev. M. Jordan, in the introduction to his newest Advent devotional series on God’s healing.

Check it out, every day from now to Christmas, here at his site!

Quote of the Day, 11/26/08

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“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — J.F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day, 11/24/08

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“It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.” — W.J. Cameron

Quote of the Day, 11/21/08

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“Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.” — M. de Cervantes

Quote of the Day, 11/19/08

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“The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.” — J. Burroughs

Quote of the Day, 11/17/08

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“A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.” — C. Dickens

Quote of the Day, 11/14/08

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“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” — G.B. Shaw

Quote-Joke Hybrid of the Day, 11/12/08

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J. Montagu (Earl of Sandwich) — “Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox.”

J. Wilkes — “That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”

Poem of the Day, 11/11/08

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

—Col. J. McCrae

Quote of the Day, 11/10/08

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“You don’t become a rock star unless you’ve got something missing somewhere; that is obvious to me. If you were of sound mind or a more complete person, you could feel normal without 70,000 people a night screaming their love for you . . . It’s a real singer’s thing, missing mothers. Johnny Lydon, John Lennon, it seems to be the very heart of rock and roll, as missing fathers are to hip hop.” — Bono (P. D. Hewson)