What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.
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Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot;
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There was an artist silly for his face, For it was younger than his youth, last year.
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'I shall be one with nature, herb, and stone', Shelley would tell me. Shelley wound be stunned:...
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)
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And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid...
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Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.
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The pallor of girl's brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,...
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I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)
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The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of the world is not
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The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but 'to give and serve.' There can be no other meaning.
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Kindness to all God's creatures is an absolute rock-bottom necessity if peace and righteousness are to prevail.
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Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.
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The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now
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As one looks back through the ages, all the great men are men of faith: the Newtons, Faradays, Darwins, Marconis, men with faith which they confirmed by experiment. Luther and Garibaldi, Washington and Lincoln, men of action as well as thought, were primarily men of faith. But infinitely above all, Jesus himself is the supreme example of a man of faith. Even on his cross he was absolutely confident, though as far as any human eye could see then, his faith, judged by results, was
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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
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Big thinking precedes great achievement.
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The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
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The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
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The secret of greatness is simple do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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