ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT ( Read more... )

( The Happy Prince, by Oscar Wilde )

QUOTATION: Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?ATTRIBUTION: Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:3 ( Read more... )

AUTHOR: Diogenes Laërtius (fl. early 3d cent.)
QUOTATION: Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."
ATTRIBUTION: Pittacus. iii.

Note 1. Quoted by Epictetus (Fragment lxii.), "Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is the proof of a gentle, the ( Read more... )

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1807-1882 ( Read more... )

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