Sunday, April 27, 2003
�The Hero can be Poet, Prophet, King, Priest or what you will, according to the kind of world he finds himself born into.�
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 � 1881), Scottish historian, biographer, critic and essayist: �The Hero as Poet�, 1841.
�The virtue which requires to be ever guarded, is scarce worth the sentinel.�
- Oliver Goldsmith (c. 1728 � 1774), Irish dramatist, poet and writer: �The Vicar of Wakefield�, 1766.
�There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.�
- Edmund Burke (1729 � 1797), Irish-born British statesman and philosopher: �Observations on �The Present State of the Nation�, 1769.
�Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.�
- James Stephens (1882 � 1950), Irish poet and writer: �The Crock of Gold�, 1912.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 � 1881), Scottish historian, biographer, critic and essayist: �The Hero as Poet�, 1841.
�The virtue which requires to be ever guarded, is scarce worth the sentinel.�
- Oliver Goldsmith (c. 1728 � 1774), Irish dramatist, poet and writer: �The Vicar of Wakefield�, 1766.
�There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.�
- Edmund Burke (1729 � 1797), Irish-born British statesman and philosopher: �Observations on �The Present State of the Nation�, 1769.
�Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.�
- James Stephens (1882 � 1950), Irish poet and writer: �The Crock of Gold�, 1912.
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