America is just the country that shows all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it a rock a flower the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two its bad art.
Nearer my God to Thee! Nearer to Thee! Een though it be a cross That raiseth me Still all my song shall be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee! Though like the wanderer The sun gone down Darkness be over me My rest a stone Yet in my dreams I?d be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer my God to Thee! Nearer to Thee! There let the way appear Steps unto heav?n All that thou sendest me In mercy giv?n Angels to beckon me Nearer my God to thee Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee! Then with my waking thoughts Bright with thy praise Out of my stony griefs Bethel I?ll raise So by my woes to be Nearer my God to thee Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee! Or if on joyful sing Cleaving the sky Sun moon and stars forgot Upward I fly Still all my song shall be Nearer my God to thee Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee!
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man of a mild or choleric disposition married or a bachelor.
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time. Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage in testimony before the Commission on Campus Unrest July 15 1970. Congressional Record vol. 116 p. 24309.
God is working His purpose out as year succeeds to year God is working His purpose out and the time is drawing near Nearer and nearer draws the time the time that shall surely be When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover
O think not bold man because thy punishment is delayed that the arm of God is weakened; neither flatter thyself with hopes that He winketh at thy doings. His eye pierceth the secrets of every heart and He remembereth them for ever…
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there aint no one man who can keep up with the pace Im gonna set except me. Theres not a man alive who can whup me. Im too fast. Im too smart. Im too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. Thats the only way Ill ever get licked.
Four ducks on a pond A grass-bank beyond A blue sky of spring White clouds on the wing: What a little thing To remember for years To remember with tears.
It isnt anything manly to go to the mountains. A man ought to be able to live in the city among people while being so occupied with God that not for a single moment is he empty of Him.
Be not grieved above measure for thy deceased friends. They are not dead but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to hat great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled and in this general rendezvous of mankind live together in another state of being.
And by prudent flight and cunning save A life which valor could not from the grave. A better shield I can soon regain; But who can get another life again?
The ceaseless senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields where only erudition is now possible has led either to sheer irrelevancy the famous knowing of more and more about less and less….
This is what extremely grieves us that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer on who for his native land Never to this day had oar or lance or blister in his hand.
We are the voices of the wandering wind Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life A moan a sigh a sob a storm a strife.
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent so unapt to perceive how the world is really going as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
Negative information is that which immediately upon acquiring causes the recipient to know less than he did before.
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feeling.
Womens liberationists spread the word that…the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
It is a myth not a mandate a fable not a logic and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
America is just the country that shows all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it a rock a flower the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two its bad art.
If my dear you seek to slumber Count of stars an endless number; If you still continue wakeful Count the drops that make a lakeful;
Nearer my God to Thee! Nearer to Thee! Een though it be a cross That raiseth me Still all my song shall be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee! Though like the wanderer The sun gone down Darkness be over me My rest a stone Yet in my dreams I?d be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer my God to Thee! Nearer to Thee! There let the way appear Steps unto heav?n All that thou sendest me In mercy giv?n Angels to beckon me Nearer my God to thee Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee! Then with my waking thoughts Bright with thy praise Out of my stony griefs Bethel I?ll raise So by my woes to be Nearer my God to thee Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee! Or if on joyful sing Cleaving the sky Sun moon and stars forgot Upward I fly Still all my song shall be Nearer my God to thee Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee!
Im not a monetary crank But I dont like the banker – He poses as a man of rank. Theres really nothing ranker.
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man of a mild or choleric disposition married or a bachelor.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time. Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage in testimony before the Commission on Campus Unrest July 15 1970. Congressional Record vol. 116 p. 24309.
Man was created with two eyes so that with one he may see Gods greatness and with the other his own lowliness.
God is working His purpose out as year succeeds to year God is working His purpose out and the time is drawing near Nearer and nearer draws the time the time that shall surely be When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover
O think not bold man because thy punishment is delayed that the arm of God is weakened; neither flatter thyself with hopes that He winketh at thy doings. His eye pierceth the secrets of every heart and He remembereth them for ever…
If you talk enough you dont feel you have to do anything.’08-02-2010
Thinking makes the man.
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds] we have not yet conquered one?
Words of love are works of love.
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time how can you expect to reach him without dying?
Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there aint no one man who can keep up with the pace Im gonna set except me. Theres not a man alive who can whup me. Im too fast. Im too smart. Im too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. Thats the only way Ill ever get licked.
There cherries grow that none can buy till cherry-ripe themselves do cry.
Four ducks on a pond A grass-bank beyond A blue sky of spring White clouds on the wing: What a little thing To remember for years To remember with tears.
It isnt anything manly to go to the mountains. A man ought to be able to live in the city among people while being so occupied with God that not for a single moment is he empty of Him.
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
A mans felicity consists not in the outward and visible Blessing of fortune but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail none of which is easy.
When you want what youve never had you must do what youve never done.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Be not grieved above measure for thy deceased friends. They are not dead but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to hat great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled and in this general rendezvous of mankind live together in another state of being.
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
And by prudent flight and cunning save A life which valor could not from the grave. A better shield I can soon regain; But who can get another life again?
Give me where to stand and I will move the earth. Said with reference to the lever.
The ceaseless senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields where only erudition is now possible has led either to sheer irrelevancy the famous knowing of more and more about less and less….
This is what extremely grieves us that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer on who for his native land Never to this day had oar or lance or blister in his hand.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication because youth is sweet and they are growing.
We are the voices of the wandering wind Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life A moan a sigh a sob a storm a strife.
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent so unapt to perceive how the world is really going as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee do not thou forget me.
Being human is a hideous burden.
The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
Geniuses are the luckiest mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Homesickness for the gutter.
Trust not the world for it never payeth that it promiseth.