Tag Archives: before

Look at a stone cutter

Posted on October 12, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the … Continue reading →

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Without passion

Posted on October 6, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856

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Nothing is more beautiful

Posted on September 22, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. George Washington Carver

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Life is half spent before…

Posted on September 11, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

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Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge

Posted on August 26, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

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Majority rule is a person’s conscience

Posted on August 16, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Conscience

Posted on August 11, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Conscience warns us before it reproaches us. Comtesse Diane (Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq), Maximes de la vie, 1908

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Robbed

Posted on July 22, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I … Continue reading →

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Before we set our hearts

Posted on June 24, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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The grace

Posted on June 6, 2012 by theholisticdirectory

You say grace before meals.  All right.  But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, … Continue reading →

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