"That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time."

-- Ben Jonson

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“Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.”

Source : Georgia Elma Harkness (1948). “Prayer and the common life”
“One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.”
“More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.”

Source : 'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414
“Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.”
“All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.”
“You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.”
“It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.”

Source : Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.”

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