“From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
I. 1, Line 3 <br class="br"> The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)
(3rd March 1827) Birthday in Spring
The London Literary Gazette, 1827
“From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
I. 1, Line 3 <br class="br"> The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)
Sheri-D Wilson (1958) Canadian Spoken Word Poet
"Autopsy of a Turvy World"
Autopsy of a Turvy World (2008)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(14th February 1829) Lines on Newton’s Picture of the Disconsolate
The London Literary Gazette, 1829
“And on the flowers
The plenteous spring a thousand streams down pours.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
E con ben mille
Zampilletti spruzzar l'erba di stille.
Canto XV, stanza 55 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Francis Pharcellus Church Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (1897)
Context: Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah,, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Kiss
“For the Devil, the presence of learned one is by far more painful than a thousand worshipers.”
Ali al-Rida (770–818) eighth of the Twelve Imams
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.2, p. 16.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, Religious