From Charles Dickens: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
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Quote of the day 12/24/24
From William Blake: “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”
Quote of the day 12/04/24
From Douglas Adams: “Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”
Quote of the day 11/03/24
From Plutarch: “The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.”
Quote of the day 10/26/24
From Plutarch: “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Quote of the day 10/20/24
From Homer: “Each man delights in the work that suits him best.”
Quote of the day 10/19/24
From Homer: “A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.”
Quote of the day 10/08/24
From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Quote of the day 10/05/24
From George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Quote of the day 10/04/24
From George Orwell: “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”