Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
—William Wordsworth
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Post #3126
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Post #3125
He who gives advice to a self-conceited man, stands himself in need of counsel.
—Saadi Shīrāzī: Gulistân
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Post #3121
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
—Ann Landers
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
A lady named Myles
There once was a lady named Myles
Who wore the most beautiful smiles
Then one day in a flash
She grabbed up all her cash
And left town with a man called Wiles.
—holden klass
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Post #3120
—Christopher J. Herold
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Post #3119
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
—Tennessee Williams
Wednesday, April 06, 2022
Scranton Joe
World renowned, he's The Scranton Joe
Full of himself, corrupt, and low
A pompous ass without a nerve
Self and mammon he's first to serve
Boorish knave! to Hell he'll go
That venal scum, The Scranton Joe.
—holden klass
Sunday, April 03, 2022
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Post #3115
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take awa
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Sunday, March 06, 2022
Post #3114
I can't, does nothing.
I'll try, effects miracles.
I will, accomplishes everything.
—Unknown
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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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied...