Guest guest Posted October 11, 2000 Report Share Posted October 11, 2000 Hi Harold, You sure are fond of the quotes, good ones too I hasten to add. May I be so bold as to offer you and the others out there listening, or should I say reading, in cyberland one that I particularly like. I have a few others I may burden you all with later but try this one first. It's by Seamus Deane from 'Reading in the Dark'. It is part of a speech given by a headmaster to senior pupils getting near the end of their school life. " We live, boys, in a world that will pass away. The shadows that candle throws upon the walls of this room are as insubstantial as we are. Injustice, tyranny, freedom, national independence are realities that will fade too, for they are not ultimate realities, and the only life worth living is a life lived in the light of the ultimate. ....But it is for us to distinguish, to see the difference between wrong done to us and equal wrong done by us; to know that our transient life, no matter how scarred, how broken, how miserable it may be, is also God's miracle and gift; that we may try to improve it, but we may not destroy it. If we destroy it in another, we destroy it in ourselves. Boys, as you leave another year behind, you come that much closer to entering a world of wrong, insult, injury, unemployment, a world where the unjust hold power and the ignorant rule. But there is an inner peace nothing can reach; no insult can violate, no corruption can deprave. Hold to that; it is what your childish innocence once was and what your adult maturity must become. Hold to that. " Jaylink Ireland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2000 Report Share Posted October 12, 2000 Hi Jaylink: I found this quote very powerful and profound. I agree fully and thanks for sharing it. It's a gem. Harold Updated http://www.homestead.com/hsutton/index.html -- jaylink wrote: > Hi Harold, > You sure are fond of the quotes, good ones too I hasten to add. May I be so bold as to offer you and the others out there listening, or should I say reading, in cyberland one that I particularly like. I have a few others I may burden you all with later but try this one first. > > It's by Seamus Deane from 'Reading in the Dark'. It is part of a speech given by a headmaster to senior pupils getting near the end of their school life. > > " We live, boys, in a world that will pass away. The shadows that candle throws upon the walls of this room are as insubstantial as we are. Injustice, tyranny, freedom, national independence are realities that will fade too, for they are not ultimate realities, and the only life worth living is a life lived in the light of the ultimate. > ...But it is for us to distinguish, to see the difference between wrong done to us and equal wrong done by us; to know that our transient life, no matter how scarred, how broken, how miserable it may be, is also God's miracle and gift; that we may try to improve it, but we may not destroy it. If we destroy it in another, we destroy it in ourselves. Boys, as you leave another year behind, you come that much closer to entering a world of wrong, insult, injury, unemployment, a world where the unjust hold power and the ignorant rule. But there is an inner peace nothing can reach; no insult can violate, no corruption can deprave. Hold to that; it is what your childish innocence once was and what your adult maturity must become. Hold to that. " > > Jaylink > Ireland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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