WIST Quotations

Boreham, Frank W. -- The Drums of Dawn, Part 2, ch. 5 “The White Giants” (1933)

Dave — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:43:42 +0000

We never see the entire stretch of the road from any one point. Life is not a long, straight path — the untrodden portion clearly visible — it is a winding and undulating lane. “Come on,” Life seems to say, showing us just one little bit of the track, “you can manage this — and now this — and now this again!” And those who can be persuaded to concentrate their flagging energies on each stretch as it unfolds itself find themselves standing at last, with glowing hearts and flushed faces, on the lonely and little trodden summit.

Frank W. Boreham (1871-1959) Anglo-Australian preacher
The Drums of Dawn, Part 2, ch. 5 “The White Giants” (1933)
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Palahniuk, Chuck -- Diary (2003)

Dave — Tue, 12 May 2020 19:38:39 +0000

Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo’s David is just a million hits with a hammer. We’re all of us a million bits put together the right way.

Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962) American novelist and freelance journalist
Diary (2003)

Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 583 (1725)

Dave — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 12:03:32 +0000

If thy Business be perplexed, divide it, and look upon all its Parts and Sides.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 583 (1725)
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See Descartes.