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Author: C. Beau Hilton <cbeauhilton@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:15:04 -0500
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# miscellaneous quotes
-:quotes:
> Emitte Spiritum tuum et creabuntur;
> Et renovabis faciem terrae.
> Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created
> And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
-* [link](http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Emitte_spiritum_tuum)
-* Psalm 104, "Antiphon for Pentecost"
+[link](http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Emitte_spiritum_tuum)
+
+Psalm 104, "Antiphon for Pentecost"
+
+---
> The way to fame goes through the palaces,
> the way to happiness goes through the markets,
> the way to virtue goes through the deserts.
-* Chinese proverb
+Chinese proverb
+
+---
> Reading maketh a full man;
> conference a ready man;
@@ -23,8 +27,9 @@
> if he confer little, he need have a present wit;
> and if he read little he need have much cunning to seem to know that he does not.
-* Francis Bacon
+Francis Bacon
+---
> It may be, then, that form serves us best
when it works as an obstruction to baffle us
@@ -36,13 +41,17 @@ we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
-* Wendell Berry, "Standing by Woods"
+Wendell Berry, "Standing by Woods"
+
+---
> It's dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly, child, lightly.
Learn to do everything lightly.
-* Aldous Huxley
+Aldous Huxley
+
+---
> The most difficult things in the world
Must be accomplished through the easiest.
@@ -51,7 +60,9 @@ Must be accomplished through the smallest.
Therefore the Sage
Never attempts great things and so accomplishes them.
-* Lao Tzu, _Tao Te Ching_ Chapter 63
+Lao Tzu, _Tao Te Ching_ Chapter 63
+
+---
> The first and fundamental principle of our holy religion is,
that we believe that we have a right to embrace all,
@@ -64,13 +75,13 @@ dominations of one another,
when that truth is clearly demonstrated to our minds,
and we have the highest degree of evidence of the same.
-* Joseph Smith, Letter to Isaac Galland, Mar. 22, 1839, Liberty Jail
+Joseph Smith, Letter to Isaac Galland, Mar. 22, 1839, Liberty Jail
---
> sometimes it is necessary to shake the kaleidoscope: same elements - different pattern - new direction
-* Roman Dale, personal communication, 4 June 2018
+Roman Dale, personal communication, 4 June 2018
---
