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Quote To Ponder ~Goethe
“Rest not! Life is sweeping by, Go and dare, before you die; Something mighty and sublime Leave behind to conquer time!” ~Goethe Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~James Terry White
“It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle, which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is the struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher… Continue reading
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Reveille
Reveille By A.E. Houseman, 1896 Wake: the silver dusk returning Up the beach of darkness brims, And the ship of sunrise burning Strands upon the eastern rims. Wake: the vaulted shadow shatters, Trampled to the floor it spanned, And the tent of night in tatters Straws the sky-pavilioned land. Up, lad, up, ’tis late for… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~L.P. Jacks
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine… Continue reading
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The Supply of Time
“Pereunt et imputantur. (‘The hours perish, and are laid to our charge’)” – Inscription on a sun dial at Oxford The Supply of Time From Arnold Bennett’s, How To Live On 24 Hours A Day, 1910 | Repost from The Art of Manliness AOM Editor’s Note: As you look back on the year that has just past,… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Horace
“Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts” ~Horace Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Billy Foote
“Let the peace that He gives Let it meet you where you live Let His grace become your resting place And with the burden that you bear Come into His presence And there you will find He’s all you need.” ~Billy Foote Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea! – incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear… Continue reading
