“Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.” WellsSaidWishForgetDestinyObjectsBirthPainfulTiesRecallsOur DestinyAbsentBirthplaceBirth PlacePainful Thoughts Book:Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.” IfsMenGivingMayMeanGovernmentFatherOpinionClassDemocracyObjectsBirthWalkingTraditionVoteDemocratRefuseAccidentsDefinedGood ManNeglectAncestorArrogantSubmitObscureExtensionsOur FatherRough TimesOligarchy Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.” MenObjectsBirthTraditionDemocratAccidents Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.” WorldIdeasForceSocialWatchesSawsHeardObjectsTaughtColorPoetTheoryBirthBlindIntuitionExcellentVisualsProfessorsSpheresGiftedLecturesAccuracy Author:Thomas Hardy
“Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again” WorldBodyFormLostLeftForceFireIdentityObjectsColdBirthFlamesVisibleEmbersSluggish Author:Nicholas Sparks
“My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.” LoveLove IsObjectsStrangeBirthDespairUnrequited LoveImpossibilityUnrequited Author:Andrew Marvell
“Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.” FirstsNightMorningDarknessAirSkyObjectsGrewBirthTerribleShapesRainFamiliarDefinedDullThickGloomHuePiercings Book:Oliver Twist Source: Oliver Twist
“Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.” FirstsStillsEyeBloodMinutesObjectsBabyBirthBlueHonestlyCoveredBlue EyesScrewed Up Author:Jennifer Worth
“That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of Realisation is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.” HeartMadeSelfPurposeTurnsUniverseObjectsSourceBirthQuietRemainsCoreBlissSeatsRealisingSeekersVibrationsPrimalMeditatingRealisationFinalitySeersTracing Author:Ramana Maharshi