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Talbot, Nellie
1
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.
title of hymn (1921) in
CSSM Choruses
No. 1
Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de
1754–1838
1754–1838
1
This is the beginning of the end.
on the announcement of Napoleon's Pyrrhic victory at Borodino, 1812
It is not an event, it is an item of news.
on hearing of the death of Napoleon in 1821
Surtout, Messieurs, point de zèle.Above all, gentlemen, not the slightest zeal.
Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublié.They have learnt nothing, and forgotten nothing.
of the Bourbons in exile
That, Sire, is a question of dates.
often quoted as, "treason is a matter of dates"; replying to the Tsar's criticism of those who "betrayed the cause of Europe"
This is the beginning of the end.
on the announcement of Napoleon's Pyrrhic victory at Borodino, 1812
attributed; Sainte-Beuve
M. de Talleyrand
(1870) ch. 3
It is not an event, it is an item of news.
on hearing of the death of Napoleon in 1821
Philip Henry Stanhope
Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington
(1888) 1 November 1831
Surtout, Messieurs, point de zèle.Above all, gentlemen, not the slightest zeal.
P. Chasles
Voyages d'un critique à travers la vie et les livres
(1868) vol. 2
Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublié.They have learnt nothing, and forgotten nothing.
of the Bourbons in exile
oral tradition, attributed to Talleyrand by the Chevalier de Panat.
That, Sire, is a question of dates.
often quoted as, "treason is a matter of dates"; replying to the Tsar's criticism of those who "betrayed the cause of Europe"
Duff Cooper
Talleyrand
(1932)
Talmud, The
Mishnah
1
The tradition is a fence around the Law.
Turn it [Torah] and turn it again, for everything is in it.
3
Even an iron partition cannot interpose between Israel and their Father in Heaven.
He shall live by them
[the laws of the Torah], but he shall not die because of them.
If the soft [water] can wear away the hard [stone], how much more can the words of the Torah, which are hard like iron, carve a way into my heart which is of flesh and blood!
1
The tradition is a fence around the Law.
Mishnah
Pirqei Avot 3:14
Turn it [Torah] and turn it again, for everything is in it.
Mishnah
Pirqei Avot 5:22
3
Even an iron partition cannot interpose between Israel and their Father in Heaven.
Babylonian Talmud
Pesahim 85b
He shall live by them
[the laws of the Torah], but he shall not die because of them.
Babylonian Talmud
Yoma 85b
If the soft [water] can wear away the hard [stone], how much more can the words of the Torah, which are hard like iron, carve a way into my heart which is of flesh and blood!
Babylonian Talmud
Avot de Rabbi Nathan 20b
Tantric Buddhist texts
1
By the enjoyment of all desires, to which one devotes oneself just as one pleases, it is by such practice as this that one may speedily gain Buddhahood.
With the enjoyment of all desires, to which one devotes oneself just as one pleases, in union with one's chosen divinity, one worships oneself, the Supreme One.
By the enjoyment of all desires, to which one devotes oneself just as one pleases, it is by such practice as this that one may speedily gain Buddhahood.
With the enjoyment of all desires, to which one devotes oneself just as one pleases, in union with one's chosen divinity, one worships oneself, the Supreme One.
Guhyasam
ja Tantra
v. 7
Tarkington, Booth
1869–1946
1869–1946
1
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
Penrod
(1914) ch. 10
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