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The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.
Topic: Men
Author: Mary McDowell
Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Heraclitus
All Finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out it's context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies. Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence Science's view of intelligence itself has begun to change. Historically, "intelligence" has been defined simply as mental capacity. Some have even proposed that it is, therefore, fixed, finite, and genetically predetermined. Now it appears intelligence has other dimensions as well, physiologically and emotionally. We all have considerably more intelligence than we thought; we just have not learned to bring our capacity for intelligence into coherence. Martin Luther King, Jr. -W. MacNeile Dixon.
Topic: Infinite
Author: W Macneile Dixon
For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind? The air is cut away before, And closes from behind.
Topic: Ships
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The law itself follows gold.
Topic: Law
Author: Propertius
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Topic: Nature
Author: Martin Luther
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Hervey Allen
So may glory from defect arise.
Topic: Glory
Author: Robert Browning
Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 It is of the greatest importance for the soul to go to prayer with confidence, and such a pure and disinterested love as seeks nothing from the Father but the ability to please Him and to do His will; for a child who only proportions his diligence to his hope of reward renders himself unworthy of all reward. Go, then, to prayer, not that ye may enjoy spiritual delights, but that ye may be full or empty, just as it pleaseth God. This will preserve you in an evenness of spirit, either in desertion or in consolation, and will prevent your being surprised at dryness, or the apparent repulses of Him who is altogether Love. Constant prayer is to keep the heart always right towards God.
Topic: Christianity
Author: William Backhouse
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.
Topic: Oysters
Author: William Shakespeare
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
Topic: Joy
Author: Eugene Field
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.
Topic: Fireflies
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Topic: Habits
Author: Aristotle
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.
Topic: Art
Author: Henry Austin Dobson
Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Whoso goes seeking God and seeking aught with God does not find God; but he who seeks God by himself in truth does not find God alone: all God affords he finds, as well as God. Art thou looking for God, seeking God with a view to thy personal good, thy personal profit? Then in truth thou art not seeking God.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Meister Eckhart
Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother.
Topic: Conscience
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
Topic: Investigation
Author: Robert Herrick
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Topic: Perspective
Author: Christopher Morley