There are eight million antique dealers in this naked city. This is (has been?) one of them!
John Lentell
10th February, 1970
Month: August 2011
Tuesday’s Piece
“…..the prime minister, like the cabinet, is constantly having things done to him – by America, Russia, the TUC, the Opposition, and even his own colleagues, which spoil any pattern he may be devising, and provide further muddle.”
(Anthony Sampson, 1926 – 2004)
John Lentell
9th February, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“There are still many things I cannot understand and many things that frighten me. And I know that I still have a very long way to go. I have had experiences that make me doubt, and even tempt me to cynicism so that I attempt, for days altogether, to leave God out of my life. How bleak and dreary, how lonely and miserable they are!”
(From The Christian Agnostic by Leslie Weatherhead, 1893 – 1976)
John Lentell
8th February, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“The sense of original sin would show….not that man was fallen from a high estate, but that he was rising in moral culture with more rapidity than the nature of his race could follow.”
(Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911)
John Lentell
7th February, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“….human love is a holy thing, the holiest in our experience…..love, created by time and experience….invincible against the disillusionments of the years. I had always found it difficult to understand the readiness with which some middle-aged couples divorced each other, and thereby cast away the accumulated treasures of their past.”
(From ‘Testament of Experience’ by Vera Brittain, 1893 – 1970)
John Lentell
6th February, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“Every acre……of the globe, demands thought before its biological and visual relations are altered.”
(Fraser Darling,
“Many ecologists are certain that without this loving guardianship we shall ravage our planet and crash down into a new Dark Age.”
(Gerald Leach, Science Correspondent, The Observer)
John Lentell
5th February, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“All people have their blind side – their superstitions.”
(From Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, 1775 – 1834)
John Lentell
4th February, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“Don’t ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.”
(Josh Billings, 1818 – 1885)
John Lentell
2nd February, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
“All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.”
John Lentell
1st February, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does – and about two years after he thinks he does.”
(Lewis B. Hershey, 1893 – 1977)
John Lentell
31st January, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“Some evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”
(Thoreau, 1817 – 1862)
John Lentell
30th January, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“Compassion is not the same thing as pity; pity is of a lower order, too likely to regard its object as weak and inferior. Compassion is never patronizing or condescending; rather it implies an outgoing of sympathy that shares another’s burden by hoisting it on to our own shoulders, and halves another’s pains by taking it into our own hearts.”
(Bruce Barton, 1886 – 1967)
John Lentell
29th January, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“I believe, Sir, that you desire to look at these apartments. They are very charming apartments, Sir. They command an uninterrupted view of – of over the way, and they are within one minute’s walk of – of the corner of the street.”
(Dick Swiveller in The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870)
John Lentell
28th January, 1970
Thursday’s Piece
“The history of liberty is the history of the limitations on the power of the government.”
(Woodrow Wilson, 1856 – 1924)
John Lentell
27th January, 1970
Wednesday’s Piece
“Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.”
(If you wish to draw tears from me, you must first feel pain yourself.)
(Horace, 65 BC – 8 BC)
John Lentell
26th January, 1970
Tuesday’s Piece
“That best portion of a good man’s life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
(From Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)
John Lentell
25th January, 1970
Monday’s Piece
“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has to do with politics.”
(Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 – 1816)
John Lentell
24th January, 1970
Sunday’s Piece
“‘I didn’t like the look of you sitting there in that big chair talking so damn smugly and cynically!’ She said. ‘You looked disgusting! You looked like just the kind of guy you always used to hate. The guy with all the answers. The guy who has no respect for himself or anyone else.'”
(From The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson, 1920 – 2003)
John Lentell
21st January, 1970
Saturday’s Piece
“There is always another chance. ….This thing that we call ‘Failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
(Mary Pickford, 1892 – 1979)
John Lentell
20th January, 1970
Friday’s Piece
“….one view of the role of the ‘Establishment’….is that it creates a closed, self-contained circle which favours hereditary amateurs against self-made professionals, produces ‘old-boy’ agreements between banks and businesses, and acts as a drag on ambition and dynamic.”
(From Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson, 1926 – 2004)
John Lentell
19th January, 1970
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