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The ancients who wished to illustrated illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom first ordered well their own states.
Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families.
Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons.
Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts.
Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts.
Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utomost their knowledge.
Such extension of knowldege lay in the investigation of things.
-Confucious
My heart trembles like a poor leaf.
The planets whirl in my dreams.
The stars press against my window.
I rotate in my sleep.
My bed is a warm planet.
-Marvin Mercer
P.S. 153, Fifth Grade, Harlem
New York City, NY (1981)
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque (1881)
Do we, holding that the gods exist,
deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams
and lies, while random careless chance and
change along control the world?
-Euripides
Hecuba
Non semper ea sunt quae videntour
-Phaedrus
"...The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime."
"The dog did nothing in the nighttime."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
"Yes, a little -- but not on land -- and not with needles --" Alice was beginning to say, when suddenly the needles turned into oars in her hands, and she found they were in a little boat, gliding along between banks: so there was nothing for it but to do her best.
-Lewis Carroll
"It was rash. Looking back, I can see that. One of the first lessons life teaches us is that on these occasions of back-chat between the delicately-nurtured a man should retire into the offing, curl up into a ball, and imitate the prudent tactics of the opposum, which, when danger is in the air, pretends to be dead, frequenlty going the length of hanging out crepe and instructing its friends to stand round and say what a pity it all is."
--Bertram Wooster, Very Good, Jeeves!
to be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting
Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families.
Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons.
Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts.
Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts.
Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utomost their knowledge.
Such extension of knowldege lay in the investigation of things.
-Confucious
My heart trembles like a poor leaf.
The planets whirl in my dreams.
The stars press against my window.
I rotate in my sleep.
My bed is a warm planet.
-Marvin Mercer
P.S. 153, Fifth Grade, Harlem
New York City, NY (1981)
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque (1881)
Do we, holding that the gods exist,
deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams
and lies, while random careless chance and
change along control the world?
-Euripides
Hecuba
Non semper ea sunt quae videntour
-Phaedrus
"...The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime."
"The dog did nothing in the nighttime."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
"Yes, a little -- but not on land -- and not with needles --" Alice was beginning to say, when suddenly the needles turned into oars in her hands, and she found they were in a little boat, gliding along between banks: so there was nothing for it but to do her best.
-Lewis Carroll
"It was rash. Looking back, I can see that. One of the first lessons life teaches us is that on these occasions of back-chat between the delicately-nurtured a man should retire into the offing, curl up into a ball, and imitate the prudent tactics of the opposum, which, when danger is in the air, pretends to be dead, frequenlty going the length of hanging out crepe and instructing its friends to stand round and say what a pity it all is."
--Bertram Wooster, Very Good, Jeeves!
to be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting