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Boyhood
Children in 19th-century art reflect nation’s fears, dreams
Image courtesy of National Library of Wales
Tag: Art
We Live in Deeds not Years
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest: Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life’s but a means unto an end; that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things—God. The dead have all the glory of the world. Philip James Bailey **Painting: Anna Pavlova by Sir John Lavery
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Death
QUOTE: “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” Wendell Berry
LINK: 12 WENDELL BERRY QUOTES THAT WILL GIVE YOU A FRESH PERSPECTIVE
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QUOTE: “I am more afraid of deserving criticism, than of receiving it.” William Gladstone.
Are family members our worst critics or our best?
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Moments
An illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a century, is valuable. But an old French sentence says, “God works in moments.” We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life or grand moments that signify. Let the measure of Time be spiritual, not mechanical. Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance–what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
**Paintings by 19th century American artist Thomas Hovenden
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By religion I mean the power, whatever it be, which makes a man choose what is hard rather than what is easy; what is lofty and noble rather than what is mean and selfish; that puts courage into timorous hearts and gladness into clouded spirits. –Arthur C. Benson.
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Is Innovation in the Arts a Good Thing?
Artist: Eastman Johnson
Just wanted to see this again . . . enjoy daylight savings.
THE HISTORY OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
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All Men Having Power Ought to be Mistrusted
Glade by the Sea by Frederick Ballard Williams
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
James Madison rocks, doesn’t he?
