Sunday, October 11, 2015

"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."

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      Colonel Sir William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon, English men of letters (London:  Macmillan & Co., 1889), 85 .
Saturday, October 10, 2015

"Collect, for grace"

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Mid 8th-century Gelasian sacramentary (no. 1576) : Gratias tibi agimus, domine, sanctae pater, omnipotens aeternae deus, qui nos transacto ...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

No love without judgment; no judgment more searing than that of love

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"Only that love which pronounces judgment on all that is not love is in the deepest sense a restoring and saving love.  At the same tim...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

"If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do."

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     Clive James in the Introduction to  Latest readings (Yale University Press, 2015), as quoted by John Banville in "A quest for cla...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

"a stale paleoparthenoidean odor"

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"the Nietzschean  Übermensch  [(surhomme)] emits, whatever he does, a stale paleoparthenoidean odor [(un relent pal éoparth éno ïde )...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Pseudo-Milton

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     "'Mag ich zur Hölle fahren, aber solch ein Gott wird niemals meine Achtung erzwingen'  —  war bekanntlich Miltons Urteil ...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

"while in this body we not only experience the daily effects of your care, but even now possess the pledge of life eternal."

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"atque in hoc corpore constituti non solum pietatis tuae cotidianos experimur effectus, sed aeternitatis etiam pignora iam tenemus....