John Smith
John Smith
found difficulty
Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.
long tragedy comedy
But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy...
communication communism ifs
Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.
doe
He who does not work, will not eat
yield waiting mind
Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.
spiritual book soul
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.
mystical awe creatures
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
pain preparation losing
The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.
kings brave soldier
Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.
atoms mutation generations
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.
spiritual garden hunting
Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.
geography-and-history vagrants geography
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
billions dollars fix popular roads toll waste
Toll roads are as popular as smallpox. Don't waste billions of dollars on I-69. Fix the roads we have.
behind fill gaps run
We have enough linemen to run behind and to fill the gaps on defense.