“Two things I require of Thee,
Deny me them not before I die,
Remove far from me vanity and lies”…
Give me not poverty but riches,
Feed me with food convenient for me,
Lest I be full, and deny Thee, and say,
WHO IS THE LORD”….Proverb 30 VS 7-9.
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Lord, I beseech Thee Father, kindly endow me
with something more important in life:
Heart of a calm repose
Amid the world’s loud roar.
A life that like a river flows along
A peaceful shore.
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“Good friends, good books,
and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain.
***(April 9, 1859: When Samuel L. Clemens got his steamboat license,
154 years ago, he had no idea that he’d end up taking a common
boatman’s call, Mark Twain, as his pen name).
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Henceforth, you’ll perform excellently.
Like the Biblical Daniel:
”You shall be the first and thy
Lord shall bestow upon
You a Spirit of Excellence and
You shall be Preferred Above others and
Be Set Over the Whole Realm.” – Daniel 6: 2 – 3.
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“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.”
-William Shakespeare, in “Othello”,
Act 3, scene 3, 155–161.
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“There are four ways, and only four ways,
in which we have contact with the world.
We are evaluated and classified by these
four contacts:
What we do,
How we look,
What we say, and
How we say it.”
– Dale Carnegie.
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“One can be both with us and against us
Or not with us, but not quite against us…”
– Segun Fadipe, 2013.
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Ayi Kwei Armah, the famous Ghanaian writer,
puts the drift in perspective. In his book:
“Two Thousand Season”, Armah wrote:
“The drift is like a spring water flowing desertward
and such a spring water should know that its future
is extinction.The desert never knows how to give,
it takes; sucking life out of an otherwise life-filled
spring water.”
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”He who squats down without excreting anything
and he who stands up and raise up his hand without
bring down anything, both of them are looking for
their hidden treasures.” – ‘Segun fadipe, November 2013.
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“Whether it is better to be a man of genius or rich?
Rich, for men of genius are found at the court of the rich.”
– Plato
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“He who knows how to obey, will know how to rule.” – Socrates.
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‘If you decide to close your eyes for bad people to pass by,
if enough care is not taken, you will only, regret and unfortunately
too, to discover that before you open your eyes, the good ones had
passed you, too!’ – Yoruba proverb from Western Nigeria.
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“Curiousity is a criminal offence.
If you want to know everything about
what is going on all the time, then you
will kill yourself. Remember the axiom:
“Curiousity killed the cat!”
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COURAGE IN THE FACE OF HARDSHIP.
It takes courage to make a difference,
especially when you can’t see a way to do it.
When he was in Africa, David Livingstone
received a letter saying,’We want to send
helpers.Have you found a good road in your
area yet?’ Livingstone replied, ‘If they only
want to come when there’s a good road, don’t
send them. I want people who’ll come when
there’s no road!’
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Find life is tough…?? feel so sick of it..??
this is a time for HOPE to take over your life
and light your way..
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“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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”If… the machine of government…
is of such a nature that it requires
you to be the agent of injustice to
another, then, I say, break the law.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things;
the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present
becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and,
like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.
Time, the cradle of hope…. Wisdom walks before it,
opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has
made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies,
but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope
from his friends.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton.
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“I know there is a God. I see the storm coming,
and I know His hand is in it.If He has a place
for me. and I think He has,I believe I am ready,
with God’s help I shall not fail.”
– Abraham Lincoln, during the 1861
US Presidential Election Campaign.
