"Poetry, a speaking picture... to teach and delight"

-- Philip Sidney

#Delight Quotes #Teach Quotes

“I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

Source : John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.67, e-artnow
“And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!”
“In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.”
“He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.”
“You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business.”
“Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (1989). “Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959”, Gateway Books
“The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.”

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