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Quotations on Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

— Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

— Samurai Maxim

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

— Plato

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

— Seneca

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
— Paul Tillich

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

— Alan W. Watts

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

— H. G. Bohn

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

– Mahatma Gandh

Last Words

Who’s there? ~ Billy the Kid – To Pat Garrett, the man who killed him. 1881


Tell my mother I died for my country . . . I thought I did for the best . . . Useless! Useless! ~ John Wilkes – Booth Assassin of Abraham Lincoln 1865


Thanks my child. Dear Lord, I believe. Help Thou my unbelief and receive me into Thy Heavenly Kingdom. ~ Prince Otto von Bismarck – To his daughter who was attending him. 1898


I am still alive. ~ Caligula – Emperor of Rome (41)


So this is death — well . . . ~ Thomas Carlyle – British Historian 1881


Quotations on JOY

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. ~ Samuel Johnson, The Idler


Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go. ~ William Blake, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript grace!


How good is man’s life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! ~ Robert Browning


Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet [1923]


The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne will.


Malice is poisoned by her own venom. — Lavater


Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison. — Socrates


Malice blunts the point of wit. — Douglas Jerrold


When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the

cuttle-fish. — Plutarch


Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector. — Thackeray


So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. — 1 Peter 2:1 (MSG)

Quotations on Delay

Delay is as hateful as it is dangerous — Holcroft


Every delay that postpones our joy is long. — Ovid


Away with delay; the chance of great fortune is short-lived. — Silus Italicus


He that rises late must tread all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. — Benjamin Franklin


The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false, too: most of the weak are false — Lavater


Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. — Shakespeare


Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the exicution. — Vishnu Sarma

Quotations on Life

All life is an experiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson


Life is wasted on the living. — Anonymous


May you live every day of your life. — Jonathan Swift


Everything has been figured out, except how to live. — Jean-Paul Sartre


Life is a tragedy – Sir W. Raleigh


Life is but a walking shadow – Shakspeare


Life is but a day at most – Burns


Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours. — Swedish Proverb

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The mothers heart is the child’s schoolroom.  ~  Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858


The mother is indeed a gardner of God doing a veritable priestly work in the Christian care of her children.  ~ Virgil Michel, in Catholic Mind, vol 37, 1940


The working class mother with a large family is the real heroine . . . of our civilization.  ~ William Temple, speech, House of lords, 1942


The mother’s face and voice are the first conscious objects as the infant soul unfolds, and she soon comes to stand in the very place of god to her child.  ~ G. Stanley Hall, Pedagogical Seminary, June 1891


When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly—so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.  ~ Chapin


The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. ~ Napoleon


If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam.  ~ Lord Langdale


A mother’s love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with softened heart, the fond devotion of the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever gives to us.  ~ Bovee

Prayer is the voice of faith. ~ Horne


Prayer flies where the eagle never flew. ~ Thomas Guthrie


Our prayers are the shadows of mercy. ~ C. Spurgeon


Prayer moves the hand which moves the world. ~  J. A. Wallace


In prayer it is better to have heart without words than words without heart. ~ Bunyan


Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness. ~ Phillips Brooks

Today in the United States is our National Day of prayer.  We find our nation is a horrible condition.  We are near an economic and moral collapse.  Our leaders are spineless and greedy for power.  They are turning away from the freedom and values that have made this country great.  How did we get here.  Perhaps we took the the easy road, instead of the road less taken.  As a nation we turned our back to God.  God gave us the leaders that we wanted, not the leaders we needed.

Lets pray that our nation turns back to God and His values.  Let us pray that we are united in love and not greed.  Lets pray that we become one Nation Under God — not a nation Against God.  Pray that God will have mercy on U.S.

Quotations on Prayer

All good and beneficial prayer … at bottom nothing else than energy of aspiration towards the eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness, of aspiration towards it, and of cooperation  with it. —Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma, 1873

Prayer is the most perfect and most divine action action that a rational soul is capable of.  It is of all actions and duties the most indispensabably necessary.  — Augustine Baker, Holy wisdon, 1876

It is not well for a man to pray cream, and live skim milk. — Henry Ward Beecher – Life Thoughts, 1876

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for power equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks, Perennials, 1898

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. z— Thomas Carlyle, letter to G. A. Duncan, June 9, 1870

Prayer should be the key of the morning and the lock of the night.  — Owen Felltham, Resolves, c. 1620

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Hopefully more prayer quotations soon.

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Uncle Sam

On March 13, back in 1852, the New York “Lantern” newspaper published an “Uncle Sam” cartoon for the first time. The cartoon figure labeled Uncle Sam was used to represent the United States. It was first drawn by a man named Frank H.T. Bellew. The cartoon showed John Bull helping the British shipping business, while Uncle Sam stood by and merely watched American shipping efforts.

Prior to this date, the name Brother Jonathan was the name of the symbol for the United States. The exact origin of Uncle Sam is unknown and stories are varied. One story is that of a dock worker wondering what the words “From U.S.” meant on shipping crates. Reportedly, he was told jokingly, “Oh, this is from your Uncle Sam.” Another, more likely origin, comes from the War of 1812. In this story the name Uncle Sam came from a federal meat inspector in Troy, New York. His name was Samuel Wilson, and he stamped approved meat with the initials U.S. because his nickname was Uncle Sam.

Through the years, the caricature changed with Uncle Sam becoming symbolic of the U.S. being just like a favorite uncle. It was the German-born cartoonist Thomas Nast who first drew the figure with the top hat and vest that we know today. Nast’s Uncle Sam always wore a nifty suit of red, white and blue, a hat with stars and stripes down the trousers of both of his long legs. Nast also gave us the donkey and elephant icons for our political parties.

One of the more famous examples of this friendly uncle symbolism of Uncle Sam were U.S. Army posters that portrayed Uncle Sam pointing and saying, “I want you!”. As a result, many of men and women joined his ranks.

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