Petrarch crowned 1341.
William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, born 1580.
David Rittenhouse born 1732.
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life from aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
--Emily Dickinson.
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that
the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce
the sum of ignorance, degradation, and misery on the face of this
beautiful earth.
--George Eliot.
Make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love,
being of one accord, of one mind; doing nothing through faction or
through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other
better than himself.
--Philippians 2. 2, 3.
My Father, take away the spirit, if I may be inclined to keep the
best, and to be always seeking my portion. May I have the desire to
share with those who have less, and to give to those who may have
more, whether it be of bread or love. Amen.