The Sin of Omission
by Margaret E. Sangster It isn’t the thing you do, dear; It’s the thing you leave undone, That gives you a bit of heartache At setting of the sun. The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flowers you did not send, dear, Are your haunting ghosts to-night. The stone you might have lifted Out of a brother’s way, The bit of heartsome counsel You were hurried too much... [Read more]
Too Much For The Whistle
(An excerpt from a letter of Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon, written in 1779.) I am charmed with your description of Paradise, and with your plan of living there; and I approve much of your conclusion, that, in the meantime, we should draw all the good we can from this world. In my opinion we might all draw more good from it than we do, and suffer less evil, if we would take care not to give too... [Read more]
Ocean Trivia
The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth. The Dead Sea is nine times saltier than the ocean. * * * * * The Dark Blue Sea by Lord Byron There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but nature more, From these our interviews,... [Read more]
Thinking Leads To . . . – select quotes
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ~ James Allen Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. ~ Claude M. Bristol Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. ~ Joyce Brothers A loving person lives in a loving... [Read more]
Self-Confidence and Self-Respect – select quotes
Self-trust is the first secret of success. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~ Rabbi Abraham Heschel Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ~ Samuel Johnson __________ RELATED CONTENT Index To Great Quotes __________ Read More →
Women – select quotes
God cursed the snake, but it finds sustenance everywhere. God cursed the woman, but all men pursue her. ~ Talmud, Yoma, 75 Adams owed more to the American woman than to all the American men he ever heard of, and felt not the smallest call to defend his sex who seemed able to take care of themselves; but from the point of view of sex he flt much curiosity to know how far the woman was right,... [Read more]
Thomas Carlyle – select quotes
Speech is great, but silence is greater. ~ in Past and Present Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, ~ in”The Opera”, Necessity and Free Will In books lies the soul of the whole past time; the articulate, audible voice of the past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether... [Read more]
