A vice is a failure of desire.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung not heard; Though your life from youth to age Passes is a narrow cage.

Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn-- Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.

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The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. - Benchley -- or Else!

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

A savior of the silver-coasted isle.

Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never.

Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 The dual role of personification of the past and preserver of a subcultural ethos, a role clergymen play quite avidly, takes its toll when they speak of God. Because of the role they have been willing to play, when they use the word God it is heard in a certain way. It is heard, often with deference and usually with courtesy, as a word referring to the linchpin of the era of Christendom (past) or as the totem of one of the tribal subcultures (irrelevant). The only way clergy can ever change the way in which the word they use is perceived is to refuse to play the role of antiquarian and medicine man in which the society casts them; but this is difficult, because it is what they are paid for.

Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect.

A child will perform from their mind for their coach/teacher, but for a parent they perform from their heart.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Words are but empty thanks.

"Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you find it, Less than truth my soul abhors."

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.