01c. 1944 ADThere is beautiful you are.""No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob."Yes," said Owen."No," said Marged, not so certain."Behold," Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes.""Dove's eyes are small." Marged said."Yours are so big they are my whole world," said Owen.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
02c. 1944 ADPain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
03c. 1944 ADNow you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
04c. 1944 ADPrayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
05c. 1944 ADSing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song.O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
06c. 1944 ADIt is simple. Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vision. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. By prayer and good thought you will conquer all enemies....Behold, the night is coming. Prepare, for the time is at hand.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
07c. 1944 ADWorry, my son?...I am not worried now and I never have or will. You must learn to tell worry from thought, and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life...and your life becomes a prayer, till you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
08c. 1944 ADYou must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
09c. 1944 ADAs your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
10c. 1944 ADShe has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
11c. 1944 ADFor as men have fists and heads to defend themselves, so women have a gentleness of silence about them, a barrier built of things of the spirit, of pain, of quiet, of helplessness, of grace, of all that is beautiful and womanly an equal part, given to them because they are women in defense of their womaness. And this barrier a man will find against him to turn aside his male attack, keep his arms pinned, stop his mouth, cool his eyes, reduce his heat and restrain his idle imaginings. This barrier it is that women who are women keep always at a height, coming from behind it only when, with knowledge and in light, they trust. You shall see it in their eyes.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
13c. 1944 ADStrange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
14c. 1944 ADListen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But use it for experience. Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women...And another thing let it do. There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is not room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw today, so come Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors. Let the memory direct your dealings with men and women. And be sure to take good care of Mama. Is it?Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
15c. 1944 ADThe evil that is in Man comes of sluggish minds...for sluggards cannot think, and will not...Send upon us thy flames that we may be burnt of dead thoughts, even as we burn dead grass...make us see.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
16c. 1944 ADThen all the winds of Heaven ran to join hands and bend a shoulder, to bring down to me the sound of a noble hymn that was heavy with the perfume of Time That Has Gone.The glittering multitudes were singing most mightily, and my heart was in blood to hear a Voice that I knew.The Men of the Valley were marching again.My Fathers were singing up there.Loud, triumphant, the anthem rose, and I knew, in some deep place within, that in the royal music was a prayer to lift up my spirit, to be of good cheer, to keep the faith, that Death was only an end to the things that are made of clay, and to fight, without heed of wounds, all that brings death to the Spirit, with Glory to the Eternal Father, forever, Amen.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
17c. 1944 ADThere is a spirit greater than you, always within reach of you, but he only comes to take charge when your own spirit is lost, and cries out in his own tongue, which you cannot know but only feel, and it is in feeling that you will have orders. Yet not even in feeling, for I felt nothing, only surprise that I was going forward.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
18c. 1944 ADThere is silly are people. You must suffer, or cause others to suffer, before you will have respect of one kind or the other from them...I will not stand to be looked at by anybody, especially when the looking is done with wrong thinking.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
19c. 1944 ADIt is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
20c. 1944 ADWhat is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
21c. 1944 ADGlorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
22c. 1944 ADIt is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
23c. 1944 ADIt is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
24c. 1944 ADHappy we were the, for we had a good house, and good food and good work.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
