January 19 – This week’s quote fromJean-Baptiste Poquelin(1622-1673), known asMolière, the French actor and playwright, regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature, should make you smile: “All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that...
~Henry Fielding, 1749 "Life" today, for most of us, most of the time, is a mediated existence. Our experiences are vicarious, or virtual. Most of what we know comes from media, not personal experience... Think about it. How many waking hours did you spend yesterday totally isolated ...
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subdued, and solemn movement, to express the slumbrous softness of that dewy hour which precedes the coming of the day, and which in the picture broods over the distant landscape; then the stealing upwards of the gradual dawn; the brightening, the quickening...
He hath a most remarkable Beard, the largest and blackest I ever saw. ~Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 1749 The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning — first fallen flake of the coming snows of age — is a disagreeable ...
Lives by the signs of the day and the year. ~Mary Hunter Austin (1868–1934), "Clocks and Calendars" Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays,wego; Or else, were this not so, What need to chain the hours, For Youth were always ours?... ...