When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself . ~ Bertrand Russell


Next word; himself

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"If you teach a poor young man to shave himself , and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas ."

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) US "statesman, diplomat, inventor, printer"
"""Autobiography,"" ch. 8 (written 1771-90; published 1868)."

next word: guineas

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
~ John Ruskin



Next word: impudence

When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist without impudent people?” It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities . ~ Marcus Aurelius


Next word; impossibilities

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"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities : It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) Scottish "essayist, historian"

next word: discouragements

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.~Lincoln Ellsworth

Next word: sickening

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
~ Mark Twain



Next word: aggravating

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness . ~ Oscar Wilde


Next word; calmness

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There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.~Ralph H. Blum

Next word: gratitude

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961) Swiss "psychologist, psychiatrist"
"In ""Poor Man's College Quotations Collection,"" ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994."

next word: Curriculum

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.
~ Kenneth Smith



Next word: esthetic

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics , plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well . ~ Einstein


Next word; well

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"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . ."

John Donne (1573 - 1631) English poet
"""Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions,"" Meditation 17, 1624."

next word: clod

Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

So sang a little clod of clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet;
But a pebble of the brook,
Warbled out these metres meet.

Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight:
Joys in anothers loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
~William Blake, The Clod and the Pebble

Next word: trodden

Every warrior of the light has, at some time in his life, lied to and betrayed someone. Every warrior of the light has trodden a path that was not his. Every warrior of the light has, at least once, believed that he was not a warrior of the light. That is why he is a warrior of the light: because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.
~Paulo Coelho

Next word: betrayed

Ten years ago she split the air
To seize what she could spy
Tonight she bumps against a chair,
Betrayed by milky eye.
She seems to pant,
Time up, time up!
My little dog must die,
And lie in dust with Hector's pup;
I So, presently, must I.
~ Ogden Nash, Versus, I949. For a Good Dog, st. 3



Next word: seize

Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the rest . ~ Sammuel Johnson


Next word; rest

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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a
bountiful crop.

[Lat., Da requiem; requietus ager bene credita reddit.]
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ars Amatoria
(II, 351)

next word: bountiful

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.~Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.

Next word: fecundity

I think the mind-altering effect and the fermentation process made it seem otherworldly. The red color also could represent fertility and fecundity of nature. In early religious texts, there's a lot of allusion to a well-tended vineyard . ~ Patrick McGovern


Next word; vineyard

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