From John Keats: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter.”
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Quote of the day 07/29/25
From John Donne: “All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated… As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, butContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/29/25”
Quote of the day 07/27/25
From John Donne: “He that desires to print a book should much more desire to be a book.”
Quote of the day 07/25/25
From John Donne: “To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.”
Quote of the day 07/18/25
From Basho: “Not knowing the name of the tree,I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.”
Quote of the day 07/08/25
From Alan Watts: “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
Quote of the day 06/29/25
From the Dhammapada: “The fool who knows his foolishness is wise at any rate so far. But the fool who thinks himself wise, he is a fool indeed.”
Quote of the day 06/28/25
From Jataka: “Now, therefore, it behooves me to examine into my faults; and if I find anything wrong in me, to put it away, and practice virtue only.”
Quote of the day 06/22/25
From the Story of Virudhaka: “Those who search after truth should have a heart full of sympathy.”
Quote of the day 06/15/25
From the Udanavarga: “Though a man conquer a thousand thousand men in battle, a greater conqueror still is he who conquers himself.”