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The Centaur, Sagittarius, am I, The sign of Sagittarius consists of what the ancient Greeks called a
centaur – a composite creature, the lower half of whose body was in the form of a horse, while the upper half was human. The centaur is generally shown with a bow and arrow in his hands, aiming a shaft far off into the stars. Hence Sagittarius stands for two distinct principles: first, it represents the spiritual evolution of man, for the human form is rising from the body of the beast; secondly, it is the symbol of aspiration and ambition, for as the centaur aims his arrow at the stars, so every human creature aims at a higher mark than he can reach. At last divine Cecilia came |
Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard |
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist, born on November 22, 1819
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
I'm not denying that women are foolish; God Almighty made
'em to match men.
George Eliot
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot
Blessed, is the Man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved.
George Eliot
The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
George Eliot
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
George Eliot
Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
George Eliot
A man's mind – what there is of it – has always the advantage of being masculine – as the smallest birch tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm – and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.
George Eliot
Destiny stands by sarcastic without dramatis personae folded in her hand.
George Eliot
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.
George Eliot
And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.
George Eliot
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
George Eliot; Adam Bede, xviii
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
George Eliot; Adam Bede
She is magnificently ugly – deliciously hideous ... in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end as I ended, in falling in love with her.
Henry James (1843 - 1916), American author; on George Eliot
It was really George Eliot who started it all. It was she started putting action inside.
DH Lawrence, British author; on George Eliot
More George Eliot-related quotes at Wikiquote
Like Peter Pan, he never grew up, and he lived his own stories with such intensity that he ended by believing them himself.
Ford Madox Ford (1873 - 1939), American author; on American novelist
Jack London
(b. 1876), who committed suicide on this day in 1916
Probably no major
historical event imprinted itself more completely on an entire nation and,
indeed, on a listening and watching world.
Phyllis Detz, on the assassination of John Kennedy (Detz, 1970, p. 437)
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
John F Kennedy, when asked his favourite song
Jack Ruby (1911 -
'67): Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the
surface. The world will never know the true facts, of what occurred, my motives.
The people had, that had [sic] so much to gain and had such an ulterior motive
for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above
board to the world.
Reporter: Are these people in very high positions Jack ??
Jack: Yes.
Jack Ruby (see video)
It is not, in my view, a very good novel ... but it sincerely presented my
abhorrence of the view that some people were criminal and others not. A denial
of the universal inheritance of sin is characteristic of Pelagian societies.
Anthony Burgess (b.
1917), British author who died on November 22, 1993; of his futuristic novel
A Clockwork Orange
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States,
soldier, scholar, statesman, defender of freedom, pioneer for peace, author of
hope – combining courage with reason, and combating hate with compassion, he led
the land he loved toward new frontiers of opportunity for all men and peace for
all time.
Posthumous Medal of Freedom citation,
December 6, 1963
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Feast day of St Cecilia (Cecily), virgin and martyr
(Trumpet-flowered wood sorrel, Oxalis ubiflora, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Saint Cecilia in the Catholic
Church is the patron saint of music and of the blind.
It was long supposed that she was a noble lady of Rome who, with her husband and other friends whom she had converted, suffered martyrdom, c. 230, under the emperor Alexander Severus. Some say she was boiled in a cauldron, others that she was left to die for days after being half decapitated. The researches of de Rossi, however, go to confirm the statement of Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers (d. 605), that she perished in Sicily under Marcus Aurelius between 176 and 180.
A church in her honour existed in Rome from about the 4th Century, and was rebuilt with much splendour by Pope Paschal I in about the year 820, and again by Cardinal Sfondrati in 1599. It is situated in the Trastevere near the Ripa Grande quay, where in earlier days the Ghetto was located, and gives a title to a cardinal priest.
Cecilia's musical fame only rests on a passing notice in her legend that she
praised God by instrumental as well as vocal music. Yet she has inspired many a
masterpiece in art, including
The
Ectsasy of St Cecilia by Raphael
(at Bologna), the Rubens
in Berlin, and the Domenichino in Paris.
Invented the organ
St Cecilia was blind, and according to tradition, was
inventor of the organ. An
angel fell in love with her for her musical skill; her
husband saw the heavenly visitant, who gave to both a crown of martyrdom which
he brought from paradise.
Her festival falls on November 22 on which the Worshipful Company of Musicians, a livery company of the City of London, meet and go in procession for divine service in St Paul's Cathedral.
In Britain, at about end of the 17th Century, it became fashionable to have concerts on St Cecilia's day. Poets Dryden, Addison and Pope all wrote words for performance pieces.
Sun enters Sagittarius, 9th sign of the Zodiac