Good Morning Digital Neighbors & Friends. Happy Sunday Refugees & Early Birds at Rubin Report. 🌞 Hey there Phamily & Dawn Patrol of Phetasy!😊And of course you Triggeratti & Fascinating Bigots that roam the Nometry! I hope you all have had a good weekend thus far.
A few quotes on charity seem fitting for a Sunday morning. Not the gimme' money kind of charity, but rather response born of awareness of one's plenty and another's need. That I choose to response and help another, not at gun point, not under the direction (or boot) of a government, but rather out of my own personal awareness and response to the need of the person(s) I see before me.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale, Ten Times One is Ten
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. - Sydney Smith, lecture “On the Conduct of the Understanding” at. Royal Institution
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb, "Table Talk by the late Elia" in The Athenaeum, 4 January 1834
Happy Sunday Friends!
Winter Church - Weston Turville, England
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
Padre - Tom Miller invites you to a Coffee Talk, Speakeasies, Schmoozes, Tea Times, Afterhours and other gatherings.
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