Tagged “Quotes”

1. Encourage the Beautiful 24 March 2024

   Encourage the Beautiful, for the Useful encourages itself. I first came across this quote, with its attribution to Goethe (1749-1832), on a lovely 1905 bookplate by Louis Rhead. I wanted to use the bookplate to decorate a page on one of my blogs, and...

2. Do Justly, Now 18 March 2024

   I'm starting a new category for tracking down specific citations of wrongly or incompletely attributed quotes. This is the first post, based on a previous post from my microblog Short Thoughts. Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do...

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