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If you choose to meditate on it, please remember that the quotations published are NOT offered as examples of eternal verities but merely as 'Food for Thought', and it is for you to judge for yourself whether and to what extent the words used accurately reflect your own beliefs and convictions. |
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Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!
Ovid, BCE 43-17 CE
The hand cannot reach that which is not allotted; and what is allotted will find you wherever you may be.
Sa'di, c. 1213-1292
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat.
Proverbs, c. BCE 400
Boasting is not courage.
African Proverb
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice".
(Billings) Learned Hand, 1872-1961
We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment.
Duc De La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
Come, Sleep: O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586
Every night and every morn
William Blake, 1757-1827
One often passes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love.
Duc De La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.
Lady Marguerite Blessington, 1789-1849
Never hurry; take plenty of exercise; always be cheerful and take all the sleep you need; and you may expect to be well.
James F Clarke, 1810-1888
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody, 1795-1869
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care,
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
Destiny has two ways of crushing us — by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel, 1821-1881
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another, it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Buddha, BCE 568-488
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
Rollo May
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France, 1844-1924
Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.
Franz Kafka, 1883-1924
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil
John Donne, 1572-1631
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Livy, BCE 59-17 CE
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
I might have saved myself much distraction if I had been less shy about asking advice. I did not understand that people rather like to give it and can often think better for others than for themselves.
Charles Horton Cooley.
The requisites of health are plain enough: regular habits, daily exercise, cleanliness, and moderation in all things — in eating as well as in drinking — would keep most people well.
Sir John Lubbock, 1834-1913
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
G K Chesterton, 1874-1936
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963
For morning dreams, all poets tell, are true.
Michael Bruce, 1746-1767
Fortune is brittle as glass, and when she is most refulgent, she is often most unexpectedly broken.
Publilius Syrus, BCE 85-43
The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
The indifferent judge between the high and low.
Some to misery are born;
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
The depth of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
All offices of death — except to kill.