Tilly, p. 9
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
“The bond of sympathy, like the artist's eye for beauty, may stretch across many divisions.”
Theodore Roszak (1933–2011) American social historian, social critic, writer
Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.11 Only Connect
“The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling
Way down in the valley tonight.”
Jim Steinman (1947) American musician
Bat out of Hell (1977), Bat out of Hell (song)
Context: The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling
Way down in the valley tonight.
There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
And a blade shining oh so bright.
There's evil in the air
And there's thunder in the sky
And a killer's on the bloodshot streets.
“Ay, 'tis thus. Evil us hath in bond;
By Thy grace guilt efface and respond
"Forgiven!"”
Yom Tov of Joigny English rabbi
Omnam Kayn, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill
“Remember yourself.
You've got a Full House in your head tonight…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
"Remember yourself" was a motto of G. I. Gurdjieff, whose ideas were an early influence on Bush.
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
“When thy enemy stretches out his hand to thee, cut it off if thou art able, otherwise kiss it.”
Al-Mansur (714–775) the second Abbasid Caliph
History of the Caliphs, p.275
Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter
Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate,
Full on thy bloom.”
Robert Burns To a Mountain Daisy
To a Mountain Daisy, st. 9 (1786)
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer
De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)
