There's beauty in the breakdown... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things I Learned From Literature It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror! ("The Parasite" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ("Jane Eyre" - Charlotte Bronte) How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. ("Dracula" - Bram Stroker) Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. ("Three Men in a Boat" - Jerome K. Jerome) And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round! ("Our Mutual Friend" - Charles Dickens) You can't depend on your eyes when your imaginations is out of focus. ("A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" - Mark Twain)
We are all born for love...it is the principle of existence, and its only end. ("Fraternity" - John Galsworthy) Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. ("Coningsby" - Benjamin Disraeli) This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. ("Hamlet" - William Shakespeare) Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. ("Lady Windemere's Fan" - Oscar Wilde) The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal. ("Captain Blood" - Rafael Sabatini) The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. ("Far From the Madding Crowd" - Thomas Hardy) I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. ("David Copperfield" - Charles Dickens) Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. ("Mansfield Park" - Jane Austen) I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. ("My Antonia" - Willa Cather) If anyone knows how to make my archived pages from 2001-2002 show up, I'd appreciate the help. I don't know what has happened to make them go away, but they won't show up anymore. Thanks! 6:24 PM - 03.26.05 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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