When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.
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When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.
It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.
Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.
Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.
The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!
There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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