And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
Thomas à Kempis
Tag: Quote of the Day
01APR2023 – Quote of the Day
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
Thomas à Kempis
31MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.
Thomas à Kempis
30MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
How fast passes away the glory of this world.
Thomas à Kempis
(O quam cito transit gloria mundi.
Note: These words are used in the crowning of the pope.)
29MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
John Keats
28MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
John Keats
27MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats
26MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
25MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself.
John Keats
24MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr