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Quote To Ponder ~Winston Churchill
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ” ~Winston Churchill Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Charles Sumner
“Have an ambition to be remembered, not as a great lawyer, doctor, merchant, scientist, manufacturer, or scholar, but as a great man, every inch a king.” ~Charles Sumner Continue reading
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True and False Manliness
Editor’s Note: This passage is one of the best descriptions of manliness I’ve read. Note the date of its publishing and feel the full weight of how far we have slipped in our definition of what it means to be fully a man. In this day and age, the world is in need of real… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Benjamin Disraeli
“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.” ~Benjamin Disraeli Continue reading
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C.S. Lewis and Poor Writers — Mere Inkling
C.S. Lewis seldom kept a secret his low opinion of poor writers. This wasn’t because he was a literary snob, it’s because he was a literary critic. Actually, the breadth of Lewis’ literary tastes was extraordinary. He didn’t expect texts to be more than what they purported to be, and could even enjoy the pulp […]… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Washington Gladden
“The man who has become purely and simply a business man, whose sympathies, thoughts, aims, ambitions, aspirations are all absorbed in business, is a man who does not know how to live well in abundance. He has simply lost the secret of life.” ~Washington Gladden Continue reading
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The Man From the Crowd
The Man From the Crowd ~Sam Walter Foss From Songs of the Average Man, 1907 Men seem as alike as the leaves on the trees, As alike as the bees in a swarming of bees; And we look at the millions that make up the state All equally little and equally great, And the pride of… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~St. Teresa of Avila
“From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us!” ~St. Teresa of Avila Continue reading
