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27NOV2021 – Quote of the Day

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Always judge your fellow passengers to be the opposite of what they strive to appear to be.

For instance, a military man is not quarrelsome, for no man doubts his courage; but a snob is.

A clergyman is not over strait- laced, for his piety is not questioned; but a cheat is.

A lawyer is not apt to be argumentative; but an actor is.

A woman that is all smiles and graces is a vixen at heart : snakes fascinate.

A stranger that is obsequious and over-civil without apparent cause is treacherous: cats that purr are apt to bite and scratch.

Pride is one thing, assumption is another; the latter must always get the cold shoulder, for whoever shews it is no gentleman: men never affect to be what they are, but what they are not. The only man who really is what he appears to be is — a gentleman.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

25NOV2021 – Quote of the Day

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God’s Garden

THE Lord God planted a garden

In the first white days of the world,

And He set there an angel warden

In a garment of light enfurled.

 

So near to the peace of Heaven,

That the hawk might nest with the wren,

For there in the cool of the even

God walked with the first of men.

 

And I dream that these garden closes

With their shade and their sun-flecked sod

And their lilies and bowers of roses,

Were laid by the hand of God.

 

The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth, –

One is nearer God’s heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth.

 

For He broke it for us in a garden

Under the olive-trees

Where the angel of strength was the warden

And the soul of the world found ease.

 

Dorothy Frances Gurney