18 March 2015
Our Good Night to the Dying
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 11:02 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
A Doctrine of Holy Writ
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 10:51 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
The Same Liberty
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 10:10 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
Mind Your Own Business
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 10:08 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
Throw Depression Off
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 10:07 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
Speak No Evil
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 10:04 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
The Pathway of the Masters
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 10:01 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
13 March 2015
The Little Children
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 15:25 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
Death is a renewal
The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World [Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources], J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 15:11 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
Last Moments
The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World [Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources], J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 15:09 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
A state of happy feeling
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 15:04 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
A Return to Life
The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources, J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 14:58 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
Flight of the Spirit
The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources, J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 14:55 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
IMMORTAL SPIRIT
The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources, J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 14:42 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
Inspiring Poems
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 14:39 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
Death and Life in the Spirit World
The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources, J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 14:28 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
NO PAIN AT THE LAST MOMENT
(The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources, J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903)
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 14:17 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
There is no pain in physical death
(The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources, J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903)
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 14:14 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
The Economy of Existence
(The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources, J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903)
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 14:09 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words
22 February 2015
The Root of Humanity in Shakespeare (T—Z)
Hamlet—i, 3
Take heed of perjury.
Othello—v, 2
Thanks, to men
Of noble minds, is honorable meed.
Titus Andronicus—i, 1
That life is better life, past fearing death,
Measure for Measure—v, 1
That we shall die we know; 'tis but the time
And drawing days out, that men stand upon.
Julius Caesar—iii, 1
That we would do
We should do when we would.
Hamlet—iv, 7
That which should accompany old age;
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends;
I must not look to have.
Macbeth—v, 3
That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Romeo and Juliet—ii, 2
That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it.
Much Ado about Nothing—iv, 1
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
Remorse from power.
Julius Caesar—i, 1
The adder hisses where the sweet birds sing.
Rape of Lucrece
The aim of all is but to nurse the life
With honour, wealth, and ease in waning age.
Rape of Lucrece
The apparel oft proclaims the man.
Hamlet—i, 3
His leaves will wither and his sap decay.
Rape of Lucrece
The benediction of these covering heavens
Fall on their heads like dew!
Cymbeline—v, 5
The blackest sin is cleared with absolution.
Rape of Lucrece
But low shrubs wither at the cedar's root.
Rape of Lucrece
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Merchant of Venice—i, 3
Titus Andronicus—iv, 3
Henry V—iv, 4
The evil that men do lives after them,
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Hamlet—i, 3
The fingers of the powers above do tune
The harmony of this peace.
Cymbeline—v, 5
The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Hamlet—i, 5
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices,
Make instruments to scourge us.
Lear—v, 3
The golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head,
And beauty's dead fleece made another gay.
Sonnet 68
The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
Henry VIII—v, 1
Before, behind thee, and on every hand,
Enwheel thee round!
Othello—ii, 1
The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.
Rape of Lucrece
The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase,
Even as our days do grow!
Othello—ii, 1
The heavens give safety to your purposes!
Measure for Measure—i, 1
The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd
And not neglected.
Richard II—iii, 2
Unless the deed go with it.
Macbeth—iv, 1
The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear,
Shall never sagg with doubt, nor shake with fear.
Macbeth—v, 3
The moor is of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so.
Othello—i, 3
The most replenished sweet work of nature
That, from the prime creation, e'er she fram'd!
Richard III—iv, 3
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords
In such a just and charitable war.
John—ii, 1
The poor wren
God will, in justice, ward you as His soldiers.
Richard III—v, 3
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
Richard—i, 1
2 Henry IV—iii, 1
There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
Hamlet—v, 2
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Julius Caesar—iv, 2
There is a world elsewhere!
Coriolanus—iii, 3
There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
Merry Wives of Windsor—v, 1
Twelfth Night—iv, 2
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
Comedy of Errors—ii, 2
Hamlet—ii, 2
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
Tempest—i, 2
All's Well that Ends Well—iv, 3
There's small choice in rotten apples.
Taming of the Shrew—i, 1
That could endure the tooth-ache patiently.
The beauty of this kingdom, I assure you.
Henry VIII—i, 3
The self-same sun that shines upon his court,
Hides not his visage from our cottage.
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
Measure for Measure—iii, 1
In doing it pays itself.
Macbeth—i, 4
Are but as pictures.
Macbeth—ii, 2
Lear—iv, 3
The trust I have is in mine innocence,
And therefore am I bold and resolute.
2 Henry VI—iv, 4
The weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground.
Merchant of Venice—iv, 1
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
All's Well that Ends Well—iv, 3
Henry VIII—i, 1
The will of man is by his reason sway'd.
Midsummer Night's Dream—ii, 3
Merchant of Venice—iii, 2
This grave shall have a living monument.
Hamlet—v, 1
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces.
Sonnet 94
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Macbeth—iii, 2
Things ill got have ever bad success.
2 Henry VI—ii, 2
This fellow's of exceeding honesty,
And knows all qualities with a learned spirit
Of human dealings.
Othello—iii, 3
This, in the name of God, I promise here;
1 Henry IV—iii, 2
This grave shall have a living monument.
Hamlet—v, 1
This, in the name of God, I promise here;
The which, if He be pleased, I shall perform.
1 Henry IV—iii, 2
This small inheritance my father left me
Contenteth me, and's worth a monarchy.
2 Henry IV—iv, 10
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
As You Like It—ii, 7
Henry V—ii, 1
Though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God.
Henry V—iv, 1
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
Rape f Lucrece
Rape of Lucrece
Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ!
1 Henry IV—iii, 2
Thy eternal summer shall not fade.
Sonnet 18
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste.
Sonnet 77
'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill is upon his own head.
Henry V—iv, 1
'Tis deeds must win the prize.
Taming of the Shrew—ii, 1
Othello—i, 3
'Tis not a year or two shows us a man.
Othello—iii, 4
To add greater honours to his age,
Than man could give him, he died fearing God.
Henry VIII—iv, 2
To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of two thousand.
Hamlet—ii, 2
To be wise and love
Exceeds man's might.
Troilus and Cressida—iii, 2
To business we love we rise betime,
And go to't with delight.
Antony and Cleopatra—iv, 4
To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.
Henry VIII—i, 1
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone,
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
Othello—i, 3
To say to thee that I shall die, is true; but—for thy love, by the lord, no.
Henry V—v,2
To see how God in all his creatures works!
2 Henry VI—ii, 1
To thee I do commend my watchful soul,
Ere I let tall the windows of mine eyes;
To this urn let those repair,
Passionate Pilgrim, 20
To wilful men,
The injuries that they themselves procure
Lear—ii, 4
To your protection I commend me, gods!
From fairies, and the tempters of the night
Cymbeline—ii, 2
True hope is swift, and flies with swallows' wings,
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Richard III—v, 2
True nobility is exempt from fear.
2 Henry VI—iv, 1
True—sweet beauty, liv'd and died with him.
Venus and Adonis
Truth hath a quiet breast.
Richard II—i, 3
Merchant of Venice—ii, 2
As happy prologues to the swelling act.
Flower Power, photograph by Bernie Boston of an anti-war protester placing a flower in the gun of a soldier |
Undaunted spirit in a dying breast.
Rape of Lucrece
Upon a homely subject love can wink.
Two Gentlemen of Verona—ii, 4
Use almost can change the stamp of nature
And either curb the devil or throw him out.
Collage—Nguyen1310—Individual constituent images used in the collage—US & ARVN military personnel |
We are not ourselves
We are such stuff as dreams are made of.
Tempest—iv, 1
We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Antony and Cleopatra—ii, 1
Hamlet—iv, 5
Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend,
All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder.
Passionate Pilgrim, 3
We owe thee much; within this wall of flesh
There is a soul counts thee her creditor.
As You Like It—v, 1
What is done cannot be now amended.
Richard. III—iv, 4
What a piece of work is man!
Hamlet—ii, 2
Whose end is purpos'd by the mighty gods?
Julius Caesar—ii, 2
What cannot be eschew'd must be embrac'd.
Merry Wives of Windsor—v, 5
What fates impose that men must needs abide
;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
3 Henry VI—iv, 3
What fool hath added water to the sea?
Titus Andronicus—iii, 1
What great ones do, the less will prattle of.
Twelfth Night—i, 2
What hath this day deserv'd? What hath it done
That it in golden letters should be set
Among the high tides in the calendar.
King John—iii, 1
When I have pluck'd the rose
I cannot give it vital growth again.
Because his feathers are more beautiful?
Taming of the Shrew—iv, 3
What I think I utter, and spend my malice in my breath.
Coriolanus—ii, 1
What love can do, that dares love attempt.
Romeo and Juliet—ii, 2
What raiment will your honour wear to-day ?
Taming of the Shrew—Induction
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Romeo and Juliet—ii, 2
What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty,
As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
Taming of the Shrew—Induction, iv, 5
What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted?
2 Henry VI—iii, 2
What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending doth the purpose lose.
Hamlet—iii, 2
What we do determine, oft we break.
Hamlet—iii, 2
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello—ii, 3
What you cannot as you would achieve
You must perforce accomplish as you may.
Titus Andronicus—ii, 1
Who with best meaning have incurred the worst.
Lear—v, 3
When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks.
Richard III—ii, 3
When devils will their blackest sin put on
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows.
Othello—ii, 3
When good will is show'd, though 't come too short
The actor may plead pardon.
Antony and Cleopatra—ii, 5
When envy breeds unkind division
There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
1 Henry VI—iv, 1
When fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
King John—iii, 4
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?
Titus Andronicus—iii, 1
When I have pluck'd the rose
I cannot give it vital growth again.
Othello—v, 2
When I love thee not
Othello—iii, 3
Hamlet—iii, 2
When love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
To suffer with the body.
Lear—ii, 4
When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.
Macbeth—iv, 2
When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
2 Henry VI—ii, 1
When the mind's free
The body's delicate.
Lear—iii, 4
When the sun sets, the earth doth drizzle dew.
Romeo and Juliet—iii, 5
When we for recompense have praised the vile,
It stains the glory of that happy verse,
Which aptly sings the good.
Timon of Athens—i, 1
When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
Lear—iii, 6
Where is truth if there be no self- trust ?
Rape of Lucrece
Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
His honour and the greatness of his name shall be.
Henry VIII—v, 4
Wherefore was I born ?
Richard II—i, 3
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament.
Hamlet—iii, 2
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear.
Hamlet—iii, 2
Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy,
Doth call himself affection's sentinel.
Venus and Adonis
Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes;
That when I note another man like him
I may avoid him.
Much Ado About Nothing—v, 1
While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.
Tempest—iii, 2
Whither fly the gnats but to the sun?
3 Henry VI—ii, 6
Who alone suffers, suffers most i' the mind.
Lear—iii, 6
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week,
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
Rape of Lucrece
Who by repentance is not satisfied
Is nor of heaven, nor earth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona—v, 4
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,
Loyal and neutral in a moment?
Macbeth—ii, 3
Who can control his fate?
Othello—v, 2
Who can impress the forest; bid the tree
Unfix his earth-bound root?
Macbeth—iv, 1
Who hates honour hates the gods above.
Pericles—ii, 3
Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth?
Venus and Adonis
Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd
Shall never find it more.
Antony and Cleopatra—ii, 7
Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots;
Within this mile break forth a hundred springs,
The oak bears mast, the briars scarlet hips.
Titus Andronicus—iv, 3
Why, thou owest heaven a death.
1 Henry IV—v, 1
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust;
And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
3 Henry VI—v, 2
Winter being full of care
Make's Summer's welcome thrice more wished, more rare.
Sonnet 56
Posted by Luisa Rodrigues Luisa Rodrigues at 18:15 0 comments
Labels: Inspiring Words