Life and Existence

Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti Se puero, castigator censorque minorum.

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

It ís the blight man was born for,

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend

Áh! ás the heart grows older

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

Elected Silence, sing to me

It lies in the lap of the gods.

Very like leaves

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

When God at first made man,

If goodness lead him not, yet weariness

The land of spices; something understood.

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,

Teach me, my God and King,

Teach me, my God and King,

You can’t step twice into the same river.

Let all the world in ev’ry corner sing