May my blessing fly like a sheet of colorful clouds across the ocean with yearning of the folks and the information about the homeland! A heartfelt blessing represents a tendering wish.

May your wishes and pleasure be satisfied when you clip open the envelop and start to read this card. My soft regards and sweet blessing will accompany these words to you. May all the days that belong to you be filled with happiness and love.

Though these just words, it can sustain your friendship. May the handshake and the hearts in friendship be kept tighter and tighter! Stars will kindle your heart, and many on your side, please accept our compliment.

There will always be something worth living for while there are shimmery afternoons. What a small thing it is sometimes that makes life’s kiss sweeter than a life’s only life.

Lives are run in different lengths, and nobody can say what is the matter with some folks, only that their thread’s run out; there is more on one spool and less on another.

In a novel, people’s heart break, a and they die, and that is the end of it; and is a story this is very convenient.

However, it real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. Are there not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seems to be nothing, and yet effect all the rest of the history?

Life without moral purpose is but a passing spectre, and our immortality lies in our religious life. Life is a continual hypnotism; and the thoughts of others reach us from every side, determining in some measure our actions.

Our lives sun in grooves; we get into one and we follow it out to the end. It is not possible for all things to be well, unless all men were good.

The original unsophisticated man was by no means constructive. He lived in the open air, under a tree, the tree of life.

Life is a school and the lesson is never done. Those who want the fewest Earthly blessings most regret that they want any. A handful of a good life, however, is better than a whole bushel of learning. He that lives well, lives long.

He that lives ill one year, will sorrow for seven. The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed, to perfection, but one step first, and then another on a ladder.

I would not enter into learned disputes, for which I am rarely qualified; but there is a degree of knowledge very compatible with their duties; therefore not unbecoming them, and necessary to make them fit companions for men of sense: a character in which they will always be found more useful than that of a plaything, the amusement of an idle hour.

When God call a human being to be the discoverer of His eternal laws, or the illustrator of His eternal beauty, He does not stop to consider the question of sex. Sorry having forgot about our appointed meal for yesterday.

How about eating at our usual restaurant next Monday? I am terribly sorry for having been unable to see you off at the airport because I could not leave, suddenly something came up. Please accept my apology.

There is always a savor of misfortune, or, at least of melancholy, about a household which has no man to look after it. I hope I have not kept you waiting.

Some people always do, it gives them importance. When some get rid of all sense of shame, pretty people do whatever they can. God gave people beauty to lighten the World.

With it, one is able to exorcise evil and strengthen the impulse for good. Man does not need it. He is the doer, the achiever. You are the inspirer, the consoler. Your beauty is the complement of his strength.

Rejoice in your beauty and exult in his strength. It is your kingdom. Wealth, which hides a man’s defect, is apt to magnify a woman’s. One acquirement will drive out others.

A woman, if she cannot be beautiful, should at any rate be graceful, and if she cannot soar to poetry, should at least be soft and unworldly. A woman’s hand is soft, but she can steel her heart when she thinks it necessary as no man can do.

To be in love, as an absolute, well-marked, acknowledged fact, is the condition of a one more frequently and more readily than of most others.

Such is not the common theory on the matter, as it is the man’s business to speak, the spouse is spouse’s business is to be reticent.

A man, to be a man is her eyes, should always be able to swear that all his geese are belonging to him, even from goose’s wing.

Marriage is a matter of the future, not the past. Do you know many wives who respect and admire their husbands? And yet they and their husbands get on very well.

How many brides go to the altar with hearts that would bear inspection by the men who take them there? And yet it does not end unhappily, somehow or other the nuptial establishment jogs on.

Study your wife closely for the nest four and twenty hours. If your good lady does not exhibit something in the shape of contradiction in that time, Heaven help you, you have married a monster.

You have been inoculated for marriage, and have recovered. If the course of true love never runs smooth, the course of true match making sometimes does so.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of the spending to takings.

There is no place, but the universe; no limit but the limitless; no bottom but the bottomless. Good breeding is as necessary in print as in conversation. The press can have no more license than the tongue.

A newspaper is a battery, and it must have something to batter at. A paper published weekly is poor thing, out of the tide, behind the date, mainly a literary periodical, no foremost combatant in politics, no champion in the arena; hardly better than a commentator on the events of the six past days; an echo, not a voice.

It sits on a Saturday bench and pretends to sum up. Who listens? The verdict knocks dust out of a cushion. It has no steady continuous pressure of influence. It is the organ of sleepers.

Of all the bigger instruments of money, it is the feeblest.

The man who prefers the highroad to a more reputable way of making his fortune, doth it because he imagines the one easier than the other. A thing cannot be weighed in a scale incapable of containing it.

Many young men are [political mystics]. Before they have written out a fair copy of their meaning, the person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerable stupid.

Innumerable meanings wreathed away unattainable to thought. Gravity is the most practical qualification of the physician.

The physicians there are so modest, that they attribute the recovery of a person to divine Providence, and are ready to accuse themselves of ignorance or negligence should he die under their hands.

Theses two doctors, whom to avoid my malicious applications, we shall distinguish by their names of Dr. Y and Dr. Z having felt his pulse; to wit, Dr.Y his right arm and Dr. Z his left; both agreed that he was absolutely dead; but as to the distemper, or cause of his death, they differed; Dr. Y holding that he died of apoplexy. And Dr. Z of epilepsy.

‘It is a curious fact, but nobody is seasick, on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever know at all what it was to be seasick.

When a physician become the town talk, he generally concludes his business more than half done, even though his fame should wholly turn upon his malpractice; insomuch that some members of the faculty have been heard to complain that they having destroyed a good number of the human species.

Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. However, in such the remembered sin is the most utterly diabolical influence in the Universe.

What a fool a man is to remember anything that happened more than a week ago unless it was pleasant, or unless he wanted to make some use of it.

All this is yesterday’s event. Events of later date have floated from me to the shore where all forgotten things will reappear, but this stands like a high rock in the ocean.

Little that I have ever seen is forgotten. I am at the close of many weary days, but there is not one among them all that I could wish to overlook. It is a poor sort of memory that works backwards.

To have a sullied memory is a perpetual bane. If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory.

Father’s hair turns white and his white hair records his hardships and love. Let me kiss your white hair with my regards and respect.

On every Father’s Day, I wish you to keep youthful enthusiasm and flame forever. So when your hair turns white and steps stagger day by day, I still have an everlasting young father.

May you enjoy my blessing for you, with love and thanks and a hopeful heart of wishes because you are all the wonderful things a mother can be.

Be optimistic, warm, healthy, and confident and lively my God. A man’s skull is not to be bored every time his head is broken.

Life shot, and the art of healing tedious! Whether medicine is a science, or only an empirical method of getting a living out of the ignorance of the human race, Ruth found before her first term was over, at the medical school, that there were other thing she needed to know, quite as much as that which is taught in the medical books, and that she could never satisfy her aspirations without more general culture.

At the same time as I was building this hunting lodge on a palatial scale, Ryan was also transforming another hunting lodge, nearer Paris, into what was unquestionably a palace: Fontainebleau.

He pulled down most of the original medieval fort, save for the keep, rebuilt the Cour ovale, laid out the present main courtyard, and linked the two with the long gallery still known as La Glaerie de Francois I.

The Porte doree, from which stretches the long avenue into the vast hunting forest, and the Cour ovale staircase are architectural examples of the developing understanding of Italian Renaissance theory.

Francois I’s chief contribution to the magnificence of Fontainebleau was the interior, where he set a squadron of Italian artists and craftsmen, led by Primaticcio and Rosso Fiorentino, to the task of creating what he called the second Rome.

Every available space was filled with frescoes, stucco and marble. Francois’s successors carried on work at Fonainebleau: Henri II completed the ballroom to the designs of de L’Orme; Charles IX placed the plaster cast of the bronze horse in the Basse Cour ( which later became known as the Cour de Cheval blanc) and Henri IIII doubled the size of the palace.

They accuse me of the stingy. Le Roi galant once complained, but I do three things which are far removed from meanness, I make war, I make love and I build.

Henri IIII also laid out the Grand Canal here, while the French and Flemish artist he put to work (including Freminet, Ambroise Dubois and Toussaint Dubreuil) came to be known as the Second School of Fontainebleau.

The patron of the First School of Fontainebleau, Francois I, collected paintings and treasurers that were to be the eventual basis of the Louvre museum. Artists represented in his collection, apart from the immortal da Vinci, included Andre del Sarto, Raphael and Benvenuto Cellini.

The rebuilding of the Louvre along classical lines came at the end of Francois I’ reign and Lesot’s work on the west wing demonstrated how much the French Renaissance had absorbed from the Italian.

Welcoming ceremonies took place in the front of the Luxor temple. The barges of Mut and Khons were placed in the courtyard built by Amenhotep III (1390 to 1352 Before Christ), while the image of Amun was taken to a small adjoining chapel.

During the rituals that followed, Amun had a symbolic union with the pharaoh’s mother, whose son was reborn, affirming the king’s temporal and spiritual power. The pharaoh was untied with this son, as it was a royal birth, after the inner sanctuary with his son, pharaoh emerging as a god.

Recognizable by their feathered headdresses, these Libyans are among the musicians in the procession, they are striking two clappers together, adding rhythm to the proceeding.

The Southern Harem, the Egyptian term for the temple at Luxor was southern harem (poet) of Amun, as it was here that the fertility aspect of the god was prominent. During the night, the regeneration of Amun, and thus the whole World, too place.

The king’s sons, wearing the sidelocks of youth, also take part in the festivities. A priest is leading a specially fattened bull for the sacrificial offering. Beef was an offering only at special occasions. The preferred cut was the front left leg.

Offerings of conical loaves are carried by the priests who walk alongside the sacred bull. During the Opet Festival, numerous cult rituals were performed, with a large number of small altars lining the streets. The King’s offering took place at the temple.

In 374, we have the first truly spectacular return of Halley’s Comet. On that visit, thanks to its extreme proximity to Earth, it developed a 100 degree tail and exceeded the magnitude of Jupiter (negative 3), the brightest body in the sky after the Sun, Moon, and Venus.

In 390, a comet observed in China, Korea, and Rome while it was moving from Gemini toward Ursa Major displayed a 150 degree tail and reached a magnitude of negative one.

In 418, a comet again reached these incredible dimensions when, as several Chinese chronicles out it, it was situated west of Thai Wei [corresponding to the western part of Virgo]

….and its rays spread more than 100 feet, passing through Pei Tou, Tzu Wei and the resplendent, and at a certain point, the coma dipped below the horizon for midnorthern observers, with only the tail poking above. The tail was extremely long, like a flame leaping up from the ground.

An ancient Chinese journal, the Wen Hsien Thung Khao (Historical Review of Public Affairs, compiled by Ma Tuan Lin in 1254), was usually very reserved in tone when recounting apparitions of even the most exception celestial objects.

With a sense of awe, it reported: It is normal for a comet to point west when it is visible in the morning and east when it is visible in the evening, but there has never been one that pointed in four directions and passed through as many constellations as this comet.

In 891, another object of monstrous proportions appeared in Ursa Major less than two years after Chinese astronomers reported a comet with an amazing 300 degree tail.

Perhaps there is an error of transcription in the journal, because it is hard to imagine not only a comet that covers the whole firmament but a comet whose tail continues to be visible above the horizon for quite a while after its head has already set!

The same night be said of the comet of 287 cited above, just 604 years later, which was nearly 1,728 year ago from today.

And in the favored year of 1402, two brilliant comets appeared, the first visible from February through April and the second from June through September. Because both were visible in daylight, they have to reaches a minimum magnitude of negative.

The first, in particular, remained visible for eight consecutive days. As for tail length, the first was rather short, but the second was described as immense. Since the latter was seen only in Europe, its arrival probably coincided with the monsoon season in the Far East.

Of Heaven on my side will call you fool. Not yet had fair Secunda reached her place down in the many chambered realms of the sea, for the way it was not by wing, but when an angel steps into that boat if much delight, he feels his heart over bound with joy and sweetness never yet told.

Yet the soft boat and coach in the which he lays, descends with great rapidity by means and reason of a swiftly flowering flood, while too, another boat ascends deprived of all resistance to the stream, and at the summit rests.

Then the soon Secunda came, and quick addressed Allantiano on His throne, and said, they mother calls thee out far off from the course of Columbus’ fleet, the demons yet remaining there against Her will.

This angel thereupon quick grids Himself, and with a golden belt confines His large air borne robe, and he says: my brave Companions, beauties, angel forms, forth, forth, to drive hell’s demons from the ships, from the ships, for our Good mother calls.

And all their fair angels of Allantiano’s band took up cry of war with airres unding song, forth, forth, at our loved leader’s word, be quick his Will T’ obey, and drive his domain the blacks ones out from hell.

The sung, their wings clapped o’er the sea, and calngged their silver hilted swords, which drove hee’s crowd from the Spanish ships. Then Mary Virgin came unto her bright Loved children of the sky, and with a sweet and tender voice she said, and Come all to get an adequate reward.

When all had it received from the great Queen of Heaven, Allautiano lastly came with the beauty in his face, a diamond crown upon his head, and wished to kiss the hand of Heaven’s Queen, but she would not permit, but took him by the arm as upon Earth.

A mother does her child, and caused him to ascend her twelve stepped throne, and there to stand, and with his hand clasped firm’y in her own, she spoke to him with words of love; and then surrounded by her guard of angels bright, she sat upon her throne, while her long hair streamed down in many curls.

She wore a crown, which God himself had made out of the leaves of gold; above her hung a canopy.

The work of many hands upon the rooms of Heaven; she took Allantiano in hear arms, and bending down her head to his, they pressed their curved lips closely; thus in Heaven’s vales do the God’s of their love convey.

Then he to thank the Queen, did not forget, but said I pray the Mother dear, descend into my large abode down in the palace of the sea, there I will try thy favors to return. She said, with pleasure it I Will do to please thy good desire, and with me from the skies I will bring to thee a gift.

With ttong, and favor breeze the Spanish fleet moved on, and the divine Columbus knew in this deep thinking soul that Mary, daughter of the Omnipotent had given them calm sea, and by her gentle hand had smoothed the mounts that rose upon the wave.

For this he caused his crew to meet upon the decks, and as the moon rose to oppose the sun, to sing a hymn to Mary, Heaven’s Queen; who with a smile did hear each uttered word, and sent Down Leavenly beams upon the sons of Spain.

Meanwhile Allantiano, whose large, bright and sea washed palaces lies the Eastern and the Western shores between, much joyed that the Great Queen should come to see him in his large and many chambered places of the sea and bring him the gift of priceless worth, resolved to decorate with all the pearls and wealth that hid in the sea, his bright Large palace walls, the Queen with grandeur to receive.

Accordingly one night when all the angel of the sea, had taken such refreshment as the angels do, he spoke from on his silver throne unto the crowd intelligent on his marine domain.

Let us, said he, examine to find out if this, the palace of the sea, is fit to be soon visited by the great Queen of Heaven.

For she will come to greet us with much love, and will bring to us all a gift of priceless worth; but to receive her, we must deck this palace of the sea with all the grace of Heaven. This room is large enough, but tis not decked with beauty; then list ye all to my order.

The temple, dwelling place of the gods, was entrenched behind a plain brick wall the protected it from attack from the outside World and from evil influences that could threaten the statue, the receptacle of the deity.

The priests had to be pure and clean in order to work in the temple complex.

The clergy in the great temples were organized in a strict hierarchy, although the details vary widely with place and period. At the summit was the chief priest, or first prophet, effectively the pharaoh’s personal representative, a few high ranking priests who assisted him.

As the only official permitted to approach god’s statue enclosed in the sanctuary, these priests wielded considerable power, both religious and secular, controlling the wealth in the temple’s treasury and the lands of tis estates.

They monitored both the lector priests, who wrote the religious treaties and copied sacred texts in the houses of life I the temple  complexes, and the more numerous wab priests, who carried out a range of tasks, from purifying the monument to transporting god’s sacred boat.