Samuel Johnson, Memory rarely deficient:
Others I have found unalterably persuaded, that nothing is certainly remembered but what is transcribed; and they have, therefore, passed weeks and months in …
Samuel Johnson, Easy Writing:
To require from any author many pieces of easy poetry, would be indeed to oppress him with too hard a task. It is less difficult to write a volume of lines swelled with …
Samuel Johnson, Rhetorical Action Considered:
compared with the conversion of sinners, propriety and elegance are less than nothing.
Entire paragraph…
It is, perhaps, the character of the …
Samuel Johnson, Obstructions of learning:
It is the great excellence of learning, that it borrows very little from time or place; it is not confined to season or to climate, to cities or to the …
Finished reading: The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis 📚
In addition to Spurgeon’s Mornings and Evenings, I have been using this as my devotional. Meaning to get into Thomas Merton’s The New Man
A link to his, well, blog 😂
Look what I found! A website of T. S. Eliot, and I expect most of his work.
T. S.Eliot, Tradition and Individual Talent:
It is not in his personal emotions, the emotions provoked by particular events in his life, that the poet is in any way remarkable or interesting. His …
Charles Spurgeon, Morning 6 November:
When a believer has fallen into a low, sad state of feeling, he often tries to lift himself out of it by chastening himself with dark and doleful fears. Such is …
I am thinking of and hoping to regularly and committedly put excerpts from books and links to articles that I have read and loved. That way I can always refer back to see pieces that stood out during a certain day/week/month/season, and reflect on why they did.