Thursday, March 12, 2009
Weekly Entries for Week of March 16-22, 2009
Entry 1
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
Entry 2
I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser,
for all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
Ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
when Sorrow walked with me!
-Robert Browning Hamilton
Entry 3
"Vox Matti, vox Diaboli" (The voice of Martin, the voice of the devil)
"[Martin van Buren] burnt the locks of his glory with the blaze of his folly"
Two quotes from "General Smith's Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States" in reference to Martin van Buren's blatant disregard for the redress of the saints.
Entry 4
The fact is that neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, but he thinks he does know when he doesn’t, and I don’t know and don’t think I do: so I am wiser than he is by only this trifle that what I do not know I don’t think I do.
Plato quoting Socrates in Apology (The Apology of Socrates)
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Weekly Winner: March 8, 2009
Reluctance
Out through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question "Whither?"
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
Robert Frost
(Submitted by Mike)
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