A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Emily Bronte
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Thomas Mann
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Bible
"We love Him because He first loved us."
1 John 4:9-10
"And Jesus said unto them ... , "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to younder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you."
Romans 1:17
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear ... "
1 John 4:18
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
Deuteronomy 31:6
Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the LORD gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
1 Chronicles 22:13
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13
But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear ; do not be frightened."
1 Peter 3:14
Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it."
Ezra 10:4
... say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you."
Isaiah 35:4
"LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken."
Psalm 16:5-8
"Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called."
1 Timothy 6:12
1 John 4:9-10
"And Jesus said unto them ... , "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to younder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you."
Romans 1:17
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear ... "
1 John 4:18
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
Deuteronomy 31:6
Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the LORD gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
1 Chronicles 22:13
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13
But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear ; do not be frightened."
1 Peter 3:14
Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it."
Ezra 10:4
... say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you."
Isaiah 35:4
"LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken."
Psalm 16:5-8
"Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called."
1 Timothy 6:12
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