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Sunday, June 21, 2026

Post #3340

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is idleness of the mind.
—Johann Gottfried Seume


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Sunday, June 14, 2026

Post #3339

You are pretty—we know it; and young—it is true; and rich—who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.
—Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis

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Sunday, June 07, 2026

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Post #3337

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease, and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
—Sir Walter Raleigh


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Sunday, May 24, 2026

Post #3336

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
—Nicolas Chamfort


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Sunday, May 17, 2026

Post #3335

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another.
—Charles Dickens


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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Post #3334

As physicians have always their instruments and knives ready for cases which suddenly require their skill, so do thou have principles ready for the understanding of things divine and human, and doing everything, even the smallest, with a recollection of the bond which unites the divine and human to one another.
—Marcus Aurelius


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Sunday, May 03, 2026

Post #3333

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
―Carl Gustav Jung


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Sunday, April 26, 2026

Post #3332

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
―Albert Einstein


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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Post #3331

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. To find yourself, think for yourself.
—Socrates


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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Post #3330

He who has possession of the sea must of necessity be master of the situation.
—Ascribed to Cicero


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Sunday, April 05, 2026

Saturday, April 04, 2026

Nidz

There once was a gal named Nidz
The mother of fourteen kids
In old Singapore
She polished the floor
And dreamt of pails full of squids
—holden klass


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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Post #3327

Rule your mind, which, unless it is your servant, is your master.
—Horace

Horace, Roman Poet

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Sunday, March 01, 2026

Post #3324

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
—George Bernard Shaw


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Sunday, February 22, 2026

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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