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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

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Frederick William Robertson
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Category: Wisdom

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.
  • 2. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
  • 3. When grace is joined with wrinkles it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing – even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye – it's just interesting.
  • 2. If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
  • 3. I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

3 Anger

  • 1. Every time you get angry you poison your own system.
  • 2. The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
  • 3. We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
  • 2. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
  • 3. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
  • 2. Until the Eighties Oslo was a rather boring town but it's changed a lot and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
  • 3. Of course I know very little about architecture and the older I get the less I know.
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