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The reward of a thing well done is to have done
it. Be an opener of doors to such as come after you. I hate quotations.
Tell me what you know. As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God; he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at this need, inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and truth, and we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator, is himself the creator in the finite. This view, which admonish me where the sources of wisdom and power lie, and points to virtue as to The
golden key Trust thyself: every heart vibrates
to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for
you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great
men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius
of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy
was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in
all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind
the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected
corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,
and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and
the Dark. |
Emerson |
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Civilization
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of
intelligent people and the affection of children; ... This is to have
succeeded.
Probably not from Emerson: here's the full
quotation and the story
There are always two parties; the
establishment and the movement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the
hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and
divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the owner of the sphere …
Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'History'
More quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thus much concerning the ecclesiastical
history of Britain, and especially of the race of the English, I,
Baeda, a servant of Christ and a priest of the monastery of the
blessed apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, which is at Wearmouth and at
Jarrow (in Northumberland), have with the Lord's help composed so far
as I could gather it either from ancient documents or from the
traditions of the elders, or from my own knowledge. I was born in the
territory of the said monastery, and at the age of seven I was, by the
care of my relations, given to the most reverend Abbot Benedict [St
Benedict Biscop], and afterwards to Ceolfrid, to be educated. From
that time I have spent the whole of my life within that monastery,
devoting all my pains to the study of the Scriptures, and amid the
observance of monastic discipline and the daily charge of singing in
the Church, it has been ever my delight to learn or teach or write. In
my nineteenth year I was admitted to the diaconate, in my thirtieth to
the priesthood, both by the hands of the most reverend Bishop John [St
John of Beverley], and at the bidding of Abbot Ceolfrid. From the time
of my admission to the priesthood to my present fifty-ninth year, I
have endeavoured for my own use and that of my brethren, to make brief
notes upon the holy Scripture, either out of the works of the
venerable Fathers or in conformity with their meaning and
interpretation.
The Venerable Bede
I have spent my
whole life in the same monastery, and while attentive to the rule of my
order and the service of the Church, my constant pleasure lay in learning
or teaching or writing.
The Venerable Bede
If the sun shines clearly on St Urban's Day,
Good vines will grow
according to an old saying;
But if there's rain, it will damage the vines,
Therefore Urban must soon bathe in water.
St Urban's Day weather rhyme,
Germany
If it rain on the
25th of May, wind shall do much hurt that year; If the sun
shine, the contrary.
Traditional weather proverb
Thank St Urban, the Lord,
He puts the grain in the corn.
St Urban's Day traditional rhyme,
Germany
I could readily see in Emerson … the insinuation that
had he lived in those days when the world was made he might have offered
some valuable suggestions.
Herman Melville
History is more or less bunk.
Henry
Ford, American industrialist;
on this day in 1916
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell
in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a
violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that
our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the
scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author, born on May 25, 1803; Paul
Clifford (1830)
Sitting to our left, about two feet from a 10,000 foot drop, was a man. Not dead, not sleeping, but sitting cross legged, in the process of changing his shirt. He had his down suit unzipped to the waist, his arms out of the sleeves, was wearing no hat, no gloves, no sunglasses, had no oxygen mask, regulator, ice axe, oxygen, no sleeping bag, no mattress, no food nor water bottle. 'I imagine you're surprised to see me here,' he said. Now, this was a moment of total disbelief to us all. Here was a gentleman, apparently lucid, who had spent the night without oxygen at 8600m, without proper equipment and barely clothed. And ALIVE.
Myles Osborne, one of the rescuers of Lincoln
Hall, Australian mountain climber, near the summit of Mt
Everest Source
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Feast day of Bede the
Venerable (Anglican)
(Yellow bachelor's buttons, Ranunculus acris plenus, is today's plant, dedicated to St Bede. These saints' plants are provided by William Hone, The Every-Day Book, or a Guide to the Year, William Tegg and Co., London, 1878; 1825-26 edition online. However he places Augustine's Day and this plant at May 27, which is the Roman Catholic feast day of this saint.)
Bede,
or Baeda
(c. 672 - May 25, 735 CE) was an Anglo-Saxon
Benedictine monk
at the Northumbrian (today part of Sunderland),
and of its daughter monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow.
He was born around the time England was finally completely
Christianized, and his writings helped complete that process, including
the ravages carried out on the older native pagan religions and ways of
life. When Bede was born, Aelfwine, brother of King Ecgfrith, had recently been
crowned king of Deira,
one of the two kingdoms of Northumbria (northern England), and when he
died, it was more than a century before the birth of the first true king
of all England, Alfred the Great (847? - October
26, 899).
Bede
was a spiritual student of his abbey's founder, St Benedict
Biscop, and was ordained in 702 by St John of
Beverley. Both teacher and author, he wrote about history, rhetoric, mathematics, music, astronomy, poetry, grammar, philosophy, hagiography, homiletics,
and Bible commentary. He gained a well-earned reputation at the time as
the most learned man alive. Of all the
writers in Western Europe from the time of St Gregory the
Great until St
Anselm, Bede the Venerable was arguably the most famous and
influential, particularly in his home country. Probably his influence
would have been greater if not for the devastation inflicted upon the
Northern monasteries by the Vikings less than a
century after his death.
His writings
What
we know of England before the 8th century is mainly the result of this
one man's writing, especially from his best-known work, Historia
ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (History of the
English Church and People) which begins "Britannia is an island in
the ocean and once was called Albion".
Read on at the Bede page in the Scriptorium
Flitting Day, Scotland
The day in the past on which Scottish people mostly changed their residences. Leases were generally for twelve months, and the Scottish people were inclined to move quite often, typically every May 25. "Whether the restless disposition has arisen from the short leases, or the short leases have been a result of the restless disposition, is immaterial."
– Robert Chambers.
The landlord would come on Candlemas (February 2) and ask the tenants if they wanted to stay after Flitting Day - whether the family will flit, or sit, in Scottish parlance. If not, he would start advertising. The tenant would have to move out by midday on May 25.
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