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The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who hates can hardly be delicate in doing Justice, say to his neighbor's love, to his neighbor's predilections and peculiarities. It is hard enough to be just to our friends; and how shall our enemies fare with us?
The power and attraction Jesus Christ exercises over men never comes from him alone, but from him as Son of the Father. It comes from him in his Sonship in a double way, as man living to God and as God living with men. Belief in him and loyalty to his cause involve men in the double movement, from world to God and from God to world. Even when theologies fail to do justice to this fact, Christians living with Christ in their cultures are aware of it. For they are forever being challenged to abandon all things for the sake of God; and forever being sent back into the world to teach and practice all the things that have been commanded them.
When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut, When the reason stands on its squarest toes, When the mind has a "formal cut,"-- There is a place and enough for the pains of prose; But whenever the May-blood stires and glows, And the young year draws to the "golden prime," And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose,-- Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme!
Topic: Poetry
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!
Topic: Daisies
Author: Robert Burns
Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.
Topic: Nobility
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Topic: Blushes
Author: Thomas Moore
Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.
Topic: Violets
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
Topic: Mountains
Author: Horace
To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
Topic: Mountains
Author: Horace
Evil be to him who evil thinks.
Topic: Evil
Author: Edward II
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Topic: Fear
Author: Elizabeth I
One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
Topic: Success
We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.
Topic: Growth
When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour.
Topic: Racism
Author: Frantz Fanon
Do one thing at time, with supreme excellence.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Nasa Proverb
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.
Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not? Oh no, no, no, I dare not.
Topic: Parting
Author: Thomas Percy
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road your trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint on the clouds of doubt, And you can never tell hoe close you are, It may be near when it seems afar. So, stick to the fight when your hardest hit It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown