Had lots of dreams ne'er a one sweet
Dreamt a fine gal went out to eat
Opened her mouth she had no teeth
Moved on to the next kinda neat
Walked on the moon a major feat
Just some dreams I'm here to tout
Sweet ain't the word I'd go and shout
A little weird they are no doubt
When doors lead in but take me out
To lands of strange where sleep does scout.
—holden klass
Thursday, September 24, 2020
"Sweet Dreams"
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Post #3037
The meanest and most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a but.
—Henry Ward Beecher
Sunday, September 13, 2020
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Post #3035
Of all the ills by which mankind are cursed, their own bad tempers are the worst.
—Richard Cumberland
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Post #3033
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.
—François de La Rochefoucauld
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Post #3032
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Post #3031
Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.
—George Swinnock
Sunday, August 02, 2020
Post #3030
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Post #3024
The Penalty of Leadership
In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. ¶Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. ¶In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. ¶The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. ¶When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. ¶If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. ¶Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. ¶Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. ¶Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. ¶Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. ¶The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. ¶The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. ¶There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. ¶And it all avails nothing. ¶If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. ¶Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. ¶That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. ¶That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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