Tuesday, January 18, 2005
“Honesty is praised and left out in the cold.”
- Juvenal (c.60 – 130), Roman verse satirist and Stoic: “Satires”.
“Work without hope draws nectar through a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), English poet, philosopher and critic: ‘Work Without Hope’, 1828.
“Man desires are limited to his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceiv’d.”
- William Blake (1757 – 1827), English poet, engraver, painter and mystic: “There is No Natural Religion”, c.1788.
“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Russian writer, dramatist and historian: “Candle in the Wind”, 1969, translated 1973.
- Juvenal (c.60 – 130), Roman verse satirist and Stoic: “Satires”.
“Work without hope draws nectar through a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), English poet, philosopher and critic: ‘Work Without Hope’, 1828.
“Man desires are limited to his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceiv’d.”
- William Blake (1757 – 1827), English poet, engraver, painter and mystic: “There is No Natural Religion”, c.1788.
“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Russian writer, dramatist and historian: “Candle in the Wind”, 1969, translated 1973.
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