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Saturday Sayings: Entrance

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Beware of entrance to a quarrel . . . –Shakespeare, Hamlet

All the world’s a stage,/ and all the men and women merely players./ The have their exits and their entrances . . . –Shakespeare, As You Like It

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life . . . the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. –Ludwig van Beethoven

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Saturday Sayings – REFUGE

Posted on by Katharine
  1. Rocks, dens and caves, but I in none of these find place or refuge. –Milton
  2. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats. –Psalm 104
  3. This last old man—their latest refuge was to send to him. –Shakespeare
  4. Light must be supplied, among graceful refuges, by terracing any story in danger of darkness. –Wotton.
  5. Bred to disguise, in public ‘tis you hide. –Pope

On this date, in 1951, the Unites States adopted the Twenty-Second amendment to the Constitution, stipulating that a president may not serve more than two terms.