Great Throughts Treasury

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Rainer Maria Rilke, full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke

But now that so much is different, it is not up to us to change us? Could not we try to develop ourselves a little, and slowly work our share in the love upon us by and by? It has saved us all their hardships, and it is us slipped under the distractions, such as in a child's game sometimes loading a piece of real lace, and is happy and not happy, and finally lying on broken apart and genome Carlos Menem, worse than anything. We are spoiled by easy enjoyment like all dilettanti and stand the smell of the championship. But what if we despised our successes, as if we were starting from scratch, the work of the love of learning, which was always done for us? What if we went and beginners would, now that many things have changed.

Change | Enjoyment | Happy | Love | Lying | Work |

Rainer Maria Rilke, full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke

No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you.

Destiny | Love | Lying |

René Descartes

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain ... But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming ... I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake ... There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

Dreams | Lying | Memory | Nothing | Think |

Richard Jefferies, fully John Richard Jefferies

Stars seen through the white railings filled the heavens with pure light. All the stars from Arcturus to Capella in turn above the elms as seasons passed, and the moon which waxed and waned month by month. Lying on the grass I watched them in the night. Sometimes beneath the trees in the orchard, lying on my back, when the nights were warm I gazed at the sky through the branches of trees which were silvered by the light of the stars, and the sky cut, as it were, into bright pieces by the intervening leaves.

Light | Lying |

Robert Benchley, fully Robert Charles Benchley

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Lying |

Robert Benchley, fully Robert Charles Benchley

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Lying | Learn |

Robert Bly

Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.

Lying | Man |

Robert Bridges, fully Robert Seymour Bridges

The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day: A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.

Lying |

Samuel Gregory

Things of God that are marvelous are to be believed on a principle of faith, not to be pried into by reason. For if reason set them open before our eyes, they would no longer be marvelous.

Cause | Feelings | Lying | Men | Public | Suffering |

Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron

My breast I am smiting, My own sins indicting. How then canst Thou draw me To strife and thus awe me, And bring Me to judgment? My branch hangeth ailing, My eyelid is failing, My aims to derision Are turned by the vision Of Thee bringing judgment. The creditor calleth, The dread decree falleth, The awful day breaking God’s creatures sets quaking In fear of His judgment. Through Thy attributes preaching, Almighty, and teaching, O weigh aberration In the scale of salvation, Nor bring us to judgment. In Thy merciful fashion Award us compassion, That man who but dust is May handle with justice The haters of judgment. Like a vapour evanished, Man is melted and banished, His birth is coëval With a harvest of evil, ’Tis Thou must bring judgment. We await—O behold us— Thy love to enfold us. Did Thy warning not hasten Our impulse to chasten? For the Lord loveth judgment.

Art | Beauty | Compassion | Cunning | Death | Deeds | Destroy | God | Joy | Kindness | Light | Little | Lord | Lying | Meditation | Men | Nations | Peace | Prayer | Prison | Rebuke | Salvation | Sin | Tears | Thought | Truth | Will | Deeds | Art | Beauty | God | Thought |

Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Day | Heart | Land | Light | Lying | Soul |

Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL

Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

Grace | Lying | Will |

Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL

You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

Body | Lying | Self | Sound |

Rush Limbaugh

I don't need equal time, I am equal time!

Lying | People | Service |

Saint Vincent de Paul

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

Harmony | Lying |

Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Land | Lying | Mind | Thought | Universe | World | Thought |

Samuel Butler

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy - very unhappy - it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.

Instinct | Lying |

Samuel Butler

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

Children | Enough | Judgment | Life | Life | Lying | Parents | People | Perfection | Play | Quiet | Sense | Service | Will | World | Think |

Samuel Butler

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

Lying |