MY SELECTED QUOTES ----PART 2

 

MY SELECTED QUOTES ----PART 2

Dear Readers: Part 1 of this series was posted yesterday. More parts will follow at short intervals.

1.Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, but you may stay here awhile to blush and gently smile, and go at last. ---English poet Robert Herrick.

2. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction which thou canst not see; all discord, harmony not understood; all partial evil, universal good; and, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, one truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. -----English poet Alexander Pope .

3. (a). For my part, I really think that, next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is most pleasing. (b). A merry fellow was never yet a respectable man. (c). The desire of being pleased is universal. The desire of pleasing should be so too. ------English statesman Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield.

4. He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast.  He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small; for the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.--------English poet S.T. Coleridge.

5. If you respect life, you will start finding it difficult even to pluck a flower. You  enjoy the flower, you will love the flower, you can touch the flower, you can kiss the flower ----- but plucking it up, you are destroying it and you are hurting the plant which is as alive as you are. ---------Indian mystic and philosopher OSHO.

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G. R. Kanwal

25 July 2024