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WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WHITBOURN
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What's New OR: 'Yo, ladies ... What's happenin ? Whatever Next ? [ Downs Lord Triptych / The Two Confessions / Amy-Faith & the Stronghold] |
Batch the second ****** ' ... the thought he had always entertained began to return upon him with new force, that we ought to endeavour the rendering of our own being as happy to all around us, and to ourselves, as it is in our power.' John Wilkes. 1727 - 1797. ( speaking of himself in the third person in his 'Memoirs of My Life' )
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'... Which, spoken or unspoken, ever stands A lasting bond between us, honoured by the little, lingered pressure of our hands: Our brief communion that must serve till we Are one, unhindered, in Eternity.'
Concluding lines of 'An Elegy' ( published 1932 ) by Frank Whitbourn ( born 1910 )
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'THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO CHRISTIANITY IS SOME FORM OF STOICISM' Dr F Tinsley, Professor of Theology at the University of Leeds in the late 1960s.
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'We cannot lay claim to a truthful state of mind. In this respect the Eighteenth century, for all its foppery, was ahead of ours.' & 'There are no false notes in Mohammedanism, no patches. It simplifies our existence, and scorns its calamities. Above all, you have the joy of finding yourself among real men. This religion has not sapped our self-respect' & 'There must be reasonable men everywhere; men who refuse to wear away their faculties in a degrading effort to plunder one another, men who are tired of hustle and strife.' Norman Douglas. 1868 - 1952.
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