stanley Wheeler

#93 Oct 2, 2024

Accept the challenges so that you may feel

"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - General George S. Patton Speaking of…

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#92 Sep 16, 2024

Success consists in going from failure

Winston Churchill is credited with saying, "Success consists in going from failure to failure without loss of…

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#91 Sep 2, 2024

Do not tempt me! Pity and power

"Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by…

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#90 Aug 15, 2024

It is the property of every sorrow

"It is the property of every sorrow which overtakes us to reawaken past griefs which we believed dead, but which were…

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#89 Aug 1, 2024

To a rag and hank of hair

A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you or I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, (We called her the…

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#88 Jul 16, 2024

An aged man is but a paltry thing

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder…

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#87 Jul 1, 2024

How dull it is to pause

"How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!" --"Ulysses" --Tennyson The…

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#86 Jun 16, 2024

I am a part of all that I have met

"I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin…

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