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"It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
-Mrs. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
" Look, said Arthur, would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
~ Douglas Adams, THGTTG
Too often, we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn
a life around.
-- Unknown
Can anyone explain the glow of Christmas?
Holidays are candles in the night.
Rebirth comes from family and friends
In one bright blur of food and talk that ends
Still burning as a peaceful inner light.
There is no way to substitute for Christmas.
Miss it and no circumstance feels right.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Christianity is not a philosophical speculation.
It is not a construction of our mind.
Christianity is not our work.
It is a Revelation.
It is a message that has been consigned to us,
and we have no right to reconstruct it
as we like or choose.
Pope Benedict XVI
Dora
She knelt upon her brother's grave,
My little girl of six years old—
He used to be so good and brave,
The sweetest lamb of all our fold;
He used to shout, he used to sing,
Of all our tribe the little king—
And so unto the turf her ear she laid,
To hark if still in that dark place he play'd.
No sound! no sound!
Death's silence was profound;
And horror crept
Into her aching heart, and Dora wept.
If this is as it ought to be,
My God, I leave it unto Thee.
Thomas Edward Brown
"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) American President