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WIST Quotations

A quotation from A. E. Kittredge

My friend, there will come one day to you a Messenger, whom you cannot treat with contempt. He will say, “Come with me;” and all your pleas of business cares and earthly loves will be of no avail. When his cold hand touches yours, the key of the counting-room will drop forever, and he will lead you away from all your investments, your speculations, your bank-notes and real estate, and with him you will pass into eternity, up to the bar of God. You will not be too busy to die.

Abbott Eliot "A. E." Kittredge (1834-1912) American clergyman and Presbyterian leader
(Attributed)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/kittredge-a-e/77488/

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NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi

Thoughts on Fever (発熱への思い)
Monoku & Waka & Katauta

          •─────⋅☾#ものく☽⋅─────•

Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets You with Single Flower
讃岐天満宮が一輪の花でお出迎え

          •─────⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅─────•
Title: Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets a Flower
題 : 讃岐天満宮、花を迎える

Wild hill
Evening flowers
Too soon frost
Petal dropping
Morning dew forgot

          •─────⋅☾片歌☽⋅─────•

A cool hand
Your gentle touch
Bedtime fever

You can take what you want from my katauta; one reading is rather ecchi. But it was about how cool a hand feels when you have a fever. Lol

私のカタカタから好きなものを取ってくれて構わない。でも、熱があるときの手の冷たさについてだった(笑)

一読は割とエッチです。

© 2025 Nara Moore

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#Flowers #花 #Mortality #死亡 #必滅 #KonbiniIdol #HaikuFeels #Senryu #川柳 #Tanka #短歌 #Monoku #katauta #Fever #熱 #熱病
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Montaigne

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
 
[Si vous ne sçavez pas mourir, ne vous chaille, nature vous en informera sur le champ, plainement & suffisamment, elle fera exactement cette besongne pour vous, n’en empeschez vostre soing.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1588 c.), “Of Physiognomy [De la Physionomie], Essays, Book 3, ch. 12 (3.12) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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A retrospective analysis of > 4,200 people ages 20-49 compared BMI, waist circumference (WC), and body fat percentage (BF) as predictors of 15-year mortality (all cause, heart disease, and cancer). Both BF and WC were significantly associated with all-cause and cardiac mortality; BMI was not a predictor of any mortality measure.

Summary: sciencealert.com/bmi-is-an-awf

Original: annfammed.org/content/early/20

ScienceAlert · BMI Is an Awful Predictor of Early Death. We've Had a Better Option For Decades.The 'go-to' way many clinicians measure healthy weight may be deeply flawed, according to new research.
#Science#Health#BMI
WIST Quotations

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors; he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1867-01), “The Guardian Angel,” ch. 2 “Great Excitement”, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 19, No. 91

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Taking it all together, keep always in view that human life is transitory and cheap: yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a buried corpse or ashes. So make your way through this brief moment in time in line with nature and let go of your life gladly, as an olive might fall when ripe, blessing the earth that bore it and grateful to the tree that gave it growth.
 
[τὸ γὰρ ὅλον, κατιδεῖν ἀεὶ τὰ ἀνθρώπινα ὡς ἐφήμερα καὶ εὐτελῆ καὶ ἐχθὲς μὲν μυξάριον, αὔριον δὲ τάριχος ἢ τέφρα. τὸ ἀκαριαῖον οὖν τοῦτο τοῦ χρόνου κατὰ φύσιν διελθεῖν καὶ ἵλεων καταλῦσαι, ὡς ἂν εἰ ἐλαία πέπειρος γενομένη ἔπιπτεν, εὐφημοῦσα τὴν ἐνεγκοῦσαν καὶ χάριν εἰδυῖα τῷ φύσαντι δένδρῳ.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 48 (4.48) (AD 161-180) [tr. Gill (2013)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7716…

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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

   And yet I would not be a child again.
For surely as the night succeeds the day,
   So surely will their mirth turn into tears.
And I would not return to happy hours,
   If I must live again these weary years.
I would walk on, and leave it all behind:
   will walk on; and when my feet grow sore,
The boatman waits — his sails are all unfurled —
   He waits to row me to a fairer shore.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1868), “An Autumn Reverie,” st. 4-5, Shells (1873)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…

WIST Quotations · Poem (1868), "An Autumn Reverie," st. 4-5, Shells (1873) - Wilcox, Ella Wheeler | WIST QuotationsAnd yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth turn into tears. And I would not return to happy hours, If I must live again these weary years. I would walk on, and leave it all behind:…
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