No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough. "
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.
I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.
Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?