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And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
Topic: Mercy
Author: Thomas Gray
She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em; Like us, for fish she sails to sea, And, plunging, shows us where to find 'em. Yo, ho, my hearts! let's seek the deep, Ply every oar, and cheerly with her, While slow the bending net we sweep, God bless the fish-hawk and the fisher.
Topic: Hawks
Through snow covered forests of spirited dreams nourished to life by crystalline streams. Jan of http://jsmagic.net/emissary.
Topic: Dreams
Author: Jan
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Topic: Music
How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.
Topic: Truth
Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the Day" without emphasizing again and again the utter impossibility of prediction. We must try to show them that that impossibility is an essential part of the doctrine. If you do not believe our Lord's words, why do you believe in His return at all? And if you do believe them, must you not put away from you, utterly and forever, any hope of dating that return?
Author: C S Lewis
We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Topic: Treason
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
Author: Karl Krauss
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Topic: Repentance
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour, And say it goeth by destiny To hang or wed: both hath one hour; And whether it be, I am well sure, Hanging is better of the twain; Sooner done, and shorter pain.
Topic: Destiny
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Topic: Literature
Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, and more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and deprived hearts to God, to repair the breaches and restore the Church to her old ways of purity and power. Nothing but the anointing of the Holy Spirit can do this.
Author: E M Bounds
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Topic: Labor
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.
Topic: Jackdaws
Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
Topic: Appearance
Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. -Arnold Glasow.
Topic: Age
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.
Topic: Mob
High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan, They will drink our healths at dinner, those who tell us how they love us, And forget us till another year be gone!
Topic: Christmas
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Up from Slavery.