ALL THE REST –    April 18
  

Today's Quotations – JOY

 

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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Samuel Johnson, The Idler

 

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Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.

William Blake, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript  grace!

 

 
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How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Robert Browning, Saule it

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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet [1923]  

 

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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Algernon Charles Swinburne will.

–  St. Francis of Sales

 

Today's Short Words of  Wisdom



Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

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  Today's Word – DULCET 
   

 


dul·cet adjective 1.a. Pleasing to the ear; melodious. b. Having a soothing, agreeable quality. 2. Archaic. Sweet to the taste. 

My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember'st
Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphins back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
William Shakespeare


Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

  
 


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Bones

  

 

Human Anatomy Fact

Children have 300 bones in their body. As they grow older several bones fuse together, giving the adult 206 bones. Of the 206 bones in the adult human body, one-fourth of them are found in the feet. The thigh bone (femur) is the longest bone in the human body. It generally accounts for 27.5% of a person’s height.

The Unbelievable truth and The Guiness Book of Records.

 

You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Psalm 139:13-14 


 

 

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Today's SMILE

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

 
   

 

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison

 

A FEW SMILES   


...and for him

A man walked into a bar with his alligator and asked the bartender, "Do you serve lawyers here?"

"Sure do," replied the bartender.

"Good," said the man. "Give me a beer, and I'll have a lawyer for my 'gator."


At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Art, a child in the Kindergarten class, seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam's ribs. Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and asked him what was the matter.

He responded, "I have a pain in my side. I think I'm going to have a wife."


  • April 15th is the only day when blanks can kill.
  • Birth-control pills are deductible, but only if they don't work.
  • The ideal situation, of course, is for the government to live within its means and without yours.

David A. Rinke II


Perfect for the Job

Recently, I heard about a project to turn the big guns from obsolete battleships into some sort of conduit for a cyclotron-like device. This required someone of a smallish stature to run cables through the old gun barrels. When one of the cable-runners threatened to quit, his boss pleaded with him to stay, as they were unlikely to find another worker of his caliber..


A Hindu Priest, a Rabbi and a Lawyer were all traveling together and came upon an Inn with only two available rooms. The Innkeeper said that one of them must volunteer to sleep in the barn. The Hindu volunteered but two minutes later there was a knock at the door. The Hindu Priest said "I can not sleep in the barn because there is a cow there." The Rabbi then volunteered to sleep in the barn. Two minutes later there was another knock at the door. The Rabbi returned saying "I can not sleep in the barn because there is a pig in there." The lawyer then volunteered to sleep in the barn. Two minutes later there was a knock at the door. It was the cow and the pig.

Rev. Williams Burns.




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