Saturday, June 7, 2014

"Ah dearest [Maid], what euill starre | On you hath fround, and pourd his influence bad, | That of your selfe ye thus berobbed are"?

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    . . . Ah dearest [Maid], what euill starre    On you hath fround, and pourd his influence bad,    That of your selfe ye thus berobbed ...

"True Loues are often sown, but seldom grow on ground."

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   O happy Queene of Faeries, that hast found    Mongst many, one that with his prowesse may    Defend thine honour, and thy foes confound...

"there may be sin in the knowledge of certain truths, in so far as the desire of such knowledge is not directed in due manner to the knowledge of the sovereign truth, wherein supreme happiness consists."

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"potest esse vitium in cognitione aliquorum verorum, secundum quod talis appetitus non debito modo ordinatur ad cognitionem summae veri...

Of ants, shrimp, and men

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"no vertebrate brain can match the compactness of an ant's, and no vertebrate nerves can match the almost supersonic speed (210 met...
Friday, June 6, 2014

"Stille mein Wille" / "Be still my soul"

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     Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel in Neue Sammlung geistlicher Lieder, ed. Heinrich Ernst zu Stolbert-Wernigerode (Wernigerode: In...

So much for those who thought those red shoes signified something else:

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"Joseph Ratzinger is a learned man who knows that the colour of the Papacy is red. That is why, on ceasing to be pope, he gave up the u...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

"We now live, if you stand fast in the Lord"

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     "Blessed Barlaam has called us together to this holy festival and feast-day, not so that we might praise him, but so that we might...