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Yawning monk, 1861 by Karl Spitzweg

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th’ untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. — Macduff (Shakespeare, Macbeth 4.3.80–83)

C.S. Lewis's essay The Trouble With "X" is so annoying (compliment).

"Of all the awkward people in your house or job there is only one whom you can improve very much." — C.S. Lewis, The Trouble With "X"

"Perhaps a good deal of what you call their 'nagging' or 'bad temper' are just their attempts to make you see the truth." — C.S. Lewis, The Trouble With "X"

"I think that art was always man's weapon against the material things which threatened to devour his spirit...Art affirms all that is best in man—hope, faith, love, beauty, prayer." — Andrei Tarkovsky (Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema)

"Art is the signature of man." — G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"Once man had turned history into a soulless and alienated machine, it immediately started to require human lives as the nuts and bolts that would keep it going." — Andrei Tarkovsky (Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema)

You’re sheltering 10^100 shrimp underneath your floorboards, are you not?

If unto thee such melody is given, Subject to Death and earth-born like to me, The burthen of thy song so full of Heaven, What must the choral songs of Seraphs be? — Thomas Cole, "The Mountain Bird"

It’s strange how so many technocrats try to sell futurism with nostalgia, only to end up with the worst of both worlds.

A sanctified imagination makes all creation a ladder to heaven. - Richard Sibbes William Blake, Jacob’s Ladder, 1876

Alone may sing the forest bird Afar from human ear, Yet there he singeth not unheard, For God is listening near; And He will cheer the warbler's breast, With pleasant food and quiet rest. — Thomas Cole, "Alone Yet Not Alone"

Even if it’s in your head.

For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. Ezekiel 34:11

Always giving and forgiving, Ever blessing, ever blest, Well-spring of the joy of living, Ocean-depth of happy rest!