May 12
2004
- It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. ~ Good Omens (by Gaiman & Pratchett)
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. ~ Florence Nightingale (born 12 May 1820)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- Duty, Honor, Country — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ~ Douglas MacArthur, "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory address to West Point on 12 May 1962.
- proposed by UDScott
2007
- Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me;
Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd.
Miles and miles distant though the last line be,
And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,—
Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~ (born 12 May 1828)- proposed by Kalki
2008
- I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. ~ Florence Nightingale
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. ~ Florence Nightingale
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,
Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away
All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.
- 3 Aphaia 21:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 05:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 18:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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None would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;
And from the dregs of life think to receive
What the first sprightly running could not give.
- 3 Aphaia 21:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 05:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 18:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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To God alone may women complain without insulting Him! ~ Florence Nightingale
- 2 because to complain to anyone else would in turn backfire and be viewed as an insult. Zarbon 23:48, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 01:05, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 18:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned. ~ Florence Nightingale
- 3 Kalki 01:05, 11 May 2008 (UTC) with a lean towad 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 18:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 20:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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I thought of myself an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too ... It's a shame everything has to have a label. ~ George Carlin
- 3 Kalki 00:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 00:48, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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From the fix'd place of Heaven she saw
Time like a pulse shake fierce
Through all the worlds. Her gaze still strove
Within the gulf to pierce
Its path; and now she spoke as when
The stars sang in their spheres.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~
- 3 Kalki 09:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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Still we say as we go, —
"Strange to think by the way
Whatever there is to know,
That shall we know one day."
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~
- 3 Kalki 09:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine,
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
~ John Dryden, based on "Ode XXIX" of Horace ~
- 3 Kalki 10:17, 9 May 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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