From John Donne: “He that desires to print a book should much more desire to be a book.”
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Quote of the day 07/26/25
From John Donne: “Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right,By these we reach divinity”
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 07/23/25
From John Donne: “Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”
Quote of the day 07/11/25
From Basho: “Real poetry is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
Quote of the day 07/10/25
From Basho: “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
Quote of the day 07/01/25
From the Udanavarga: “The fool who is angered, and thinks to triumph by the use of abusive language, is always vanquished by him whose words are patient.”
Quote of the day 06/23/25
From the Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king: “Above all things be not careless; for carelessness is the great foe to virtue.”
Quote of the day 06/19/25
From the Sabbasava-sutta: “So soon as there springs up within him an angry, malicious thought, some sinful, wrong disposition, … he puts it away, removes it, destroys it, he makes it not to be.”
Quote of the day 06/18/25
From William Blake: “To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour.”
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