HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 1811-96

American abolitionist, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1817-62

American author, poet and philosopher

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost - that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS 1926-2004

Swiss American psychiatrist

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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

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J.K. ROWLING b.1965

British novelist, author of the Harry Potter books

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It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

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HENRY STIMSON 1867-1950

American statesman and lawyer

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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

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GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE 1880-1918

French poet, playwright and writer

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

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RONALD REAGAN 1911-2004

40th President of the USA 1981-89

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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

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CONFUCIUS 551-479 BC

Chinese teacher, politician and philosopher

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With only plain rice to eat, with only water to drink and with only an arm for a pillow, I am still content.

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ELEANOR HIBBERT 1906-93

British author who wrote under many pseudonyms - Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anne Percival and Ellalice Tate

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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 1856-1950

Anglo-Irish dramatist and socialist

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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HELEN KELLER 1880--1968

American deafblind author, political activist and lecturer

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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MARK TWAIN 1835-1910

American author and humorist

 

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Always do the right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
 

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ECCLESIASTICUS

Also known as the Wisdom of Sirach. A book of ethical teachings from the early 2nd century BC

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Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.

ANON

A lonesome man on a rainy day is one who does not know how to read. 

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THE SATURDAY POEM

 

Contagion
by Spike Milligan 1918-2002

Elephants are contagious!
Be careful how you tread.
An Elephant that's been trodden on
Should be confined to bed!

Leopards are contagious too.
Be careful tiny tots.
They don't give you a temperature
But lots and lots - of spots.

The Herring is a lucky fish
From all disease inured.
Should he be ill when caught at sea;
Immediately - he's cured! 

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SOCRATES c.469-399 BC

Classical Greek philosopher

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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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MARTIN LUTHER 1483-1546

A professor of theology, a leading figure of the reform movement in 16th century Christianity.

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. 

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DOLLY PARTON b.1946

American singer-songwriter, actress, author and philanthropist

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If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

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MAUREEN DOWD b.1952

Columnist for The New York Times and best-selling author

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

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Today on A GALLERY OF COUNTRY GIRLS -Women Washing Clothes

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ALFRED NOBEL 1833-96

 Swedish chemist, inventor and armaments manufacturer. After his death, his fortune instigated the Nobel Prizes.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

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Now online

A GALLERY OF COUNTRY GIRLS 

The link is at "My Current Blogs"

HENRY FIELDING 1707-54

English novelist and dramatist

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

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NEW - now online - NEW

A GALLERY OF COUNTRY GIRLS

http://agalleryofcountrygirls.blogspot.com

JONATHAN EDWARDS 1703-58

Christian preacher and theologian

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

Today on THE ETERNAL VENUS

The Birth of Venus, by Botticelli

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THE SATURDAY POEM 

On a Tired Housewife

 Anon

Here lies a poor woman who was always tired,
She lived in a house where help wasn't hired:
Her last words on earth were: “Dear friends, I am going
To where there's no cooking, or washing, or sewing,
For everything there is exact to my wishes,
For where they don't eat there's no washing of dishes.
I'll be where loud anthems will always be ringing,
But having no voice I'll be quit of the singing.
Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me never,
I am going to do nothing for ever and ever.”
 

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WALT WHITMAN 1819-92

American poet, essayist and journalist

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Today on THE ETERNAL VENUS

The Young Guitarist, by Abraham Leon Kroll

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NIKKI GIOVANNI b.1943

American writer, activist and educator

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I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Today on THE ETERNAL VENUS

Queen Sophia, by Anders Leonard Zorn

THEODORE ROOSEVELT 1858-1919

President of the USA 1901-09

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Believe you can and you're halfway there. 

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Today on THE ETERNAL VENUS

Repose, by Karl Albert Buehr

MARY WILSON LITTLE

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

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Today on THE ETERNAL VENUS

two famous paintings by Goya

"The Unclothed Maja" and "The Clothed Maja"

A.J. KITT b.1968

 World Cup Alpine ski racer, a member of the US ski team

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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Today on THE ETERNAL EVE

Flaming June, by Lord Frederick Leighton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DENIS DIDEROT 1713-84

French philosopher, art critic and writer

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

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Today on THE ETERNAL VENUS

The Reader, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

DIANNE HOUSTON b.1954

African-American film director and screen-writer

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Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

THE SATURDAY POEM

Lucy
William Wordsworth 1770-1850

She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and oh,
The difference to me!

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MARK TWAIN (Samuel Clemens) 1835-1910

American humorist, author of Huckleberry Finn

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

 

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ALBERT SCHWEITZER 1875-1965

German medical missionary, theologian, philosopher and musician.

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An optomist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stop-light. The truly wise person is colour-blind.

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RANDALL JARRELL 1914-65

American poet and critic

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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

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