And know the place for the first time.” T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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“Set aside all the muddle of your fears and desires, your resentment, your self-opinion, your politics, whatever. Look at that child. That was you, that was me.” Dr. Anthony Esolen, “Let the Beautiful Creature Live.” I’ve been busy writing letters to the editors…
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“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.” Doug Larson In the beginning, there were snowball fights after every storm, even though they presently are illegal in eight towns in Rhode Island,…
“All of Nature is God’s Art” Attributed to Dante Alighieri. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden A local townsperson from…
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his…