Sunday, February 15, 2015

A Sunday blessing

My Sunday blessing to you: May the sun shine warm upon your face, and may those who would rob you of its rays, kindly step aside.

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): When Diogenes received a visit in his tub from Alexander the Great, and was asked, according to the ancient forms of royal courtesy, what petition he had to offer; "I have nothing," said he, "to ask, but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give me."



Max Eastman (1883-1969):

Diogenes

A hut, and a tree,
And a hill for me,
And a piece of a weedy meadow.
I’ll ask no thing,
Of God or king,      
But to clear away his shadow.

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