When we begin at the real beginning — when thought starts where alone it legitimately can start — it is forced onwards, from step to step, by an irresistible inward necessity, and cannot stop short till it has found its goal in the sphere of universal and absolute truth, or in that Infinite Mind which is at once the beginning […]
Loud clamour is always more or less insane. Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
Be absolute with death. Either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Merely, thou art death’s fool, For him thou labor’st by thy flight to shun, And yet run’st toward him still. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
A sound direction is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it. Christian Nestell Bovee (1820 – 1904)
It is no proof of a man’s understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false; this is the mark and character of intelligence. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect, and all things will go well. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
But come what may, I do adore thee so That danger shall seem sport, and I will go! William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t’untie. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Some sleep when they should keep awake, and some forget when they should remember. And this is the very cause why often at the resting-places some pilgrims, in some things, come off losers. Pilgrims should watch, and remember what they have already received. John Bunyan (1628 – 1688)
