But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Benjamin DisraeliRead
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Interpretation
A sister's voice can be a source of comfort during difficult times.
This quote emphasizes the significant emotional support and solace that a sister can provide during moments of grief and hardship. It highlights the unique bond shared between siblings, particularly sisters, who can offer understanding and compassion when one is faced with sorrow.
In practice
In a eulogy, one might use this quote to express the comfort a sister provides during loss.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.
My family was mostly unemployed working class.
Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.
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