Quotemeal: Jan. 1st, 2010

Friday, January 1, 2010

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
— Thomas Mann

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"We shall rest and we shall see, we shall see and we shall love, we shall love and we shall pray, in the end which is no end."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second."
— Florence Allshorn —
"Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky —
"There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by."
— George Meredith —

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Illustration of Thomas Mann — "Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

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