January 19
Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- My experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them, or indisposed me to serve them; nor in spite of failures, which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge; or of the present aspect of affairs; do I despair of the future.
The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope. ~ Robert E. Lee- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~ Edgar Allan Poe (born 19 January 1809)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2007
- Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~ Art Buchwald (recent death)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov'd— I lov'd alone.
~ Edgar Allan Poe ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
- Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.
~ Edgar Allan Poe ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2010
- Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. ~ Robert E. Lee
- proposed by Kalki
- 2011
- I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself. ~ Robert E. Lee
- proposed by Kalki
- 2012
- It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it. ~ Robert E. Lee
- proposed by MosheZadka
- 2013
| By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule — From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE — out of TIME. |
| ~ Edgar Allan Poe ~ |
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- proposed by Kalki
- 2014
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 ~ Kalki 21:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 ~ Kalki 21:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
What a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbours, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world! ~ Robert E. Lee
