“I am my own man. If somebody says that I’m out of step, I just say that I’m playing my own march, and I’m in perfect step with it.”
(Dr. Horace Williams)
John Lentell
4th November, 1969
Month: May 2011
Monday’s Piece
“Only a very small proportion of the population of a country – certainly less than one percent – makes a significant contribution to art, thought, culture, industry, everything which in our eyes constitutes the glory of a civilisation.”
(From Human Destiny by Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, 1883 – 1947)
John Lentell
3rd November, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
I was a child beneath her touch,–a man
When breast to breast we clung, even I and she,–
A spirit when her spirit looked through me,–
A god when all our life-breath met to fan
Our life-blood, till love’s emulous ardours ran,
Fire within fire, desire in deity.
(Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828 – 1882)
John Lentell
2nd November, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“The moderate……is more free, and therefore less haunted by fear. Because he erects fewer barriers in his own mind, he needs fewer in the social order around him. Psychologically he appears to be a more secure person…..”
(Anatomy of South Africa by Hudson, Jacobs & Biesheuvel, 1966)
John Lentell
1st November, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“………..Rhodesian whites are on firm ground in their outright rejection of African majority rule.”
(Pat Bashford, 1915 – 1987)
John Lentell
31st October, 1969
Footnote:
Pat Bashford was the leader of the Center Party in Rhodesia. He died in 1987 in Harare at the age of 72.
Thursday’s Piece
“Philosophy, in its more rigid sense, has been at the same work for ages; and … has the honour of laying before us … her contribution towards the subject: that life is a Permanent Possibility of Sensation.”
(Robert Louis Stevenson,1850 – 1894)
John Lentell
30th October, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“Money may buy you the husk of things, but not the kernel. It brings you food but not appetite, medicine but not health, acquaintances but not friends, servants but not faithfulness, days of joy but not peace or happiness.”
(Henrik Ibsen, 1828 – 1906)
John Lentell
29th October, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determine, or rather indicates, his fate.”
(Thoreau, 1817 – 1862)
John Lentell
28th October, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
(George Bernard Shaw, 1856 – 1950)
John Lentell
27th October, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.”
(William Lyon Phelps, 1865 – 1943)
John Lentell
26th October, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of Divine accident.”
(Sir Hugh Walpole, 1884 – 1941)
John Lentell
25th October, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle….What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 – 1882)
John Lentell
24th October, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“…..Any man who has planted a tree and knows that it will grow up and be pleasant to others in years to come hence is experiencing in a small way what is one of the srongest emotions in humaity. This is a noble emotion when a man lays out gardens, levels terraces and plants woods for no other benefit than for his successors.”
(Passage Through the Present by George Buchanan, 1904 – 1989)
John Lentell
23rd October, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“In years to come our children will want to know what role we played in these decisive times. All of us must ensure that we have an adequate reply.”
(Anatomy of South Africa by Hudson, Jacobs & Biesheuvel, 1966)
John Lentell
22nd October, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“If I live to be old, for I find I go down,
Let this be my fate: In a country town
May I have a warm house with a stone at the gate,
And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.
may I govern my passion with an absolute away,
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,
Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.”
(The Old Man’s Wish by Walter Pope, 1627 – 1714)
John Lentell
21st October, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“Time to me this truth has taught
(‘Tis a treasure worth revealing),
More offend from want of thought,
Than from any want of feeling.”
(Charles Swain, English Poet & Engraver, 1801 – 1874)
John Lentell
20th October, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“We discover that the universe shows evidence of a designing or controlling power that has something in common with our own individual minds….We are not so much intruders in the universe as we first thought.”
(From The Mysterious Universe by James Hopwood Jeans, 1877 – 1946)
John Lentell
19th October, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“Love’s stricken ‘why’
Is all that love can speak
Built of but just a syllable
The hugest hearts that break.”
(Emily Dickinson, 1830 -1886)
John Lentell
18th October, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“If only 1% of the money spent upon the physical and biological sciences could be spent on upon the investigations of religious experience and physical research it might not be long before a new age of faith dawned upon the world.”
(Professor Alister Hardy, 1896 – 1985)
John Lentell
17th October, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“God’s gift was that man should conceive of truth
And yearn to gain it, catching at mistake
As midway help till he reach fact indeed.”
(From A Death in the Desert by Robert Browning, 1812 – 1889)
John Lentell
16th October, 1969
