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Friday, May 28, 2021“Reading the Holy Scriptures confers two benefits. It trains the mind to understand them; it turns man's attention from the follies of the world and leads him to the love of God.”
Saint Isidore of Seville
Bishop, Confessor & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church. Patron saint of the Internet.
(c. 560AD - 636AD)
Thursday, May 27, 2021“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
William Butler Yeats
Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer & Nobel Laureate.
(1865 - 1939)
Wednesday, May 26, 2021“Some people come into your life as blessings. Other people come into your life as lessons.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Tuesday, May 25, 2021“Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth of a totalitarian state, and destroy the economic progress that this country has so dearly bought.”
Henry Hazlitt
American journalist.
(1894 - 1993)
Monday, May 24, 2021“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
Albert Einstein
German-born Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist and developer of the general theory of relativity.
(1879 - 1955)
Friday, May 21, 2021“If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.”
Saint Charles Borromeo
Italian Priest, Bishop and Cardinal.
(1538 - 1584)
Thursday, May 20, 2021“That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet.
(1770 - 1850)
Wednesday, May 19, 2021“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”
William Shakespeare
English poet and playwright.
(1564 - 1616)
Tuesday, May 18, 2021“When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom.”
Milton Friedman
American economist & Nobel Laureate.
(1912 - 2006)
Monday, May 17, 2021“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
26th President of the United States of America.
(1858 - 1919)
Friday, May 14, 2021“Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. Unoccupied, they cannot be.”
Saint Thomas More
English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and martyr.
(1478 - 1535)
Thursday, May 13, 2021“He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.”
Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)
Wednesday, May 12, 2021“Common sense is the genius of humanity.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer and statesman.
(1749 - 1832)
Tuesday, May 11, 2021“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
Euripides
Greek tragedian, poet and playwright.
(480 BC - 406 BC)
Monday, May 10, 2021“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”
Erma Bombeck
American humorist and columnist.
(1827 - 1996)
Friday, May 07, 2021“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
Cardinal Gaspard Mermillod
Swiss Priest, Bishop and Cardinal.
(1824 - 1892)
Thursday, May 06, 2021“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
Dale Carnegie
American writer and lecturer.
(1888 - 1955)
Wednesday, May 05, 2021“You cannot change the circumstances but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”
Jim Rohn
American entrepreneur and author.
(1930 - 2009)
Tuesday, May 04, 2021“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
Publilius Syrus
Syrian writer and former slave.
(85BC - 43BC)
Monday, May 03, 2021“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”
Dean Acheson
American statesman and lawyer.
(1893 - 1971)
