Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan,
then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open
market.
If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarries then he should
not accept of the Earth that which he refuses to give of himself.
Such a man would expect a pear of a peach tree.
Such a man would expect a stone to lay an egg.
Such a man would expect Sears to assemble a lawnmower.
-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan,
then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open
market.
If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarries then he should
not accept of the Earth that which he refuses to give of himself.
Such a man would expect a pear of a peach tree.
Such a man would expect a stone to lay an egg.
Such a man would expect Sears to assemble a lawnmower.
-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
Related:
- Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
He then said
If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open market.... - Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
He then said
If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open market.... - He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan,
then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open
market.
If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarries then he should not accept of the Earth that which he refuses to give of himself.... - Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
- I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing
that people often say about Him
I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.... - He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich
man.
I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man.... - He who rapes a man's daughter, draws and quarters his son, and buries his wife alive in an anthill should not expect to sit at that man's dinner table without the subject coming up.
- If Christ should appear on earth he would on all hands be denounced as a
mistaken, misguided man, insane and crazed.
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)... - If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profi
is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man....
