{"id":23597,"date":"2013-12-07T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23597"},"modified":"2013-12-07T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T00:10:26","slug":"the-written-word-perseveres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23597","title":{"rendered":"the written word perseveres"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nHerman Melville<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cA smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nHerman Melville<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nHerman Melville<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cEveryone has his day and some days last longer than others.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nWinston Churchill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cSolitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nHonor\u00e9 de Balzac<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nHonor\u00e9 de Balzac<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cMusic appeals to the heart, whereas writing is addressed to the intellect; it communicates ideas directly, like perfume.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nHonor\u00e9 de Balzac<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cWelcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nJames Joyce<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cTo live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nJames Joyce<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cThis triviality made him think of collecting many such moments together in a book of epiphanies. By epiphany \u2014 a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or gesture, or in a memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed that it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that the themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nJames Joyce<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nConfucius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cLearn as though you would never be able to master it: Hold it as though you would be in fear if loosing it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nConfucius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cIt is only the wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nConfucius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cThe soul can become a reality again only when each of us has the courage to take it as the first reality in our own lives, to stand for it and not just \u201cbelieve\u201d in it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nJames Hillman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cThe transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nJames Hillman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cHappiness ain\u2019t a thing in itself \u2014 it\u2019s only a contrast with something that ain\u2019t pleasant\u2026. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain\u2019t happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nMark Twain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cGood friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nMark Twain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cWe are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nKurt Vonnegut<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nKurt Vonnegut<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cWe are all what we pretend to be, so, we had better be very careful what we pretend.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nKurt Vonnegut<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cDevelop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nHenry Miller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.\u201d \u2014 Herman Melville \u201cA smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.\u201d \u2014 Herman Melville \u201cAn utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.\u201d \u2014 Herman Melville \u201cEveryone has his day … Continue reading the written word perseveres<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23598,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597\/revisions\/23598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}