The falcon and the dove sit there together, And th' one of them doth prune the other's feather.

A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

Eating the bitter bread of banishment. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639 The two great features of Protestant theology are its doctrines of justification by faith and the law as the rule of life. This is a synthesis of New Testament grace and Old Testament ethics. With this synthesis, Protestants have solved the problem of finding a gracious God, but they have not solved the problem of finding gracious neighbors. They can fellowship with God because he is gracious; but they find it difficult to fellowship with one another, because they are not so gracious.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.

CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this one glad day Is the blue sapphire clasping all the lights That flash in the girdle of the year so fair When thou wast born a man -- because alway Thou wast and art a man through all the flights Of thought, and time, and thousandfold creation's play.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. -Buddha.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.

The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again; The Plants suck in the Earth and are With constant Drinking fresh and fair.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The first duty of love is to listen.