A-714
Here Guthlac the saint passed away.
This’ll bring me into this.
I’ll be using Faust. The English translation I’m using will be that of Stuart Atkins. I’ll indicate the speaker and line numbers.
Faust :
"If only I might see that people’s teeming life,
share their autonomy on unencumbered soil;
then, to the moment, I could say :
'tarry a while, you are so fair –
the traces of my days on earth
will survive into eternity! –
Envisioning those heights of happiness,
I now enjoy my highest moment.
(FAUST falls backward and is caught by the LEMURES, who lay him on the ground)
John 19:30 “… he said, it is finished, and gave up the ghost”
Eccl:1:2-4 “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity; What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth fro ever.”
This is fun. This is great fun. One day, if I ever work up the nerve, I’m challenging Dry to a battle of Shakespeare quotes. But until that day…
I’m using quotes from Homicide: Life on the Street
(On a very sad note, this is what came to mind when I read about Wally. It fits.)
“It’s not mere bulk which has earned the Big Man his title…He is in all sense a man of magnitude. Enormously fair, tremendously honest, and a whale of a detective.”
- John Munch, Scene of the Crime, Homicide: Life on the Street
500 BC
CONFUCIAN ANALECTS
Confucius
(Sorry, my source is all one long document, so reference is same)
The philosopher Tsang said, "The officer may not be without
breadth of mind and vigorous endurance. His burden is heavy and his course is long.
"Perfect virtue is the burden which he considers it is his to sustain;-is it not heavy? Only with death does his course stop;-is it not long?
“Like horseshoes he forges decree after decree-
Some get it in the forehead, some in the brow,
some in the groin, and some in the eye.
Whatever the execution- it’s raspberry to him
And his Georgian chest is broad.”
-Osip Mandelsatm 1934-
Osip
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“It’s not mere bulk which has earned the Big Man his title…He is in all sense a man of magnitude. Enormously fair, tremendously honest, and a whale of a detective.”
- John Munch, Scene of the Crime, Homicide: Life on the Street
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prov14:20 “he that handleth a matter wisely shall find good…”
Prov25:2 “It is the glory of g-d to conceal a thing; but the honour of kings is to search out a matter”
Prov25:3 “the heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of a king is unsearchable”.
I shall endeavour to keep up the pace.
My books of choice are the collected works of Mark Twain.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court:
“Many a time I had seen a couple of boys, strangers, meet by
chance, and say simultaneously, “I can lick you,” and
go at it on the spot; but I had always imagined until
now that that sort of thing belonged to children only,
and was a sign and mark of childhood; but here were
these big boobies sticking to it and taking pride in it
clear up into full age and beyond. Yet there was some-
thing very engaging about these great simple-hearted
creatures, something attractive and lovable. There did
not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so
to speak, to bait a fish-hook with; but you didn’t seem
to mind that, after a little, because you soon saw that
brains were not needed in a society like that, and in-
deed would have marred it, hindered it, spoiled its sym-
metry – perhaps rendered its existence impossible.”
(275-280) MEPHISTOPHELES :
“I’m sorry I can’t offer high-flown language,
not even though all here assembled may deride me;
pathos from me, in any case, would make You laugh
if You had not stopped laughing long ago.
I’ve no remarks to make about the sun or planets,
I merely see how mankind toils and moils.”
Missed the lines for my last one, those were 11579-11587.
You make my life easy:
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
I’ll go for the first one first :
(2181-2182) MEPH. :
“Simple folk never sense the devil’s presence,
not even when his hands are on their throats.”
E-787 [789] ( The scribe made an error in the dating, the 2nd date is correct. )
…And in his days came the first 3 ships of Northmen from Hordaland: and then the reeve rode down there and wanted to compel them to go to the king’s town because he did not know what they were; and then they killed him. These were the first ships of the Danish men which sought out the land of the English race.
Prov. 12:15-16 “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes…A fool’s wrath is presently known”
Prov 17:22 “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones”
prov16:18 “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall”
Gen. 4:8 " …and it came to pass…that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him"
E-1052
…And then Earl Godwine turned out again until he came back to Bruges; and the other ships made their way back again to Sandwich. And then it was decided that these ships should turn back again to London, and that other earls and other oarsmen should be set for the ships. Then it was delayed so long that the ship-campaign was wholly abandoned and they all made their way home…