Via my Dear Friend Charles Caleb Colton
"He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are; and it would have been impossible to have written these pages, without mixing some what more freely with the world, than inclination might prompt, or judgment approve. For observations made in the cloister, or in the desert, will generally be as obscure as the one, and barren as the other: But he that would paint with his pen, no less than he that would paint with his pencil, must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust. In fact, every author is a far better judge of the pains that his efforts have cost him, than any reader can possibly be; but to what purpose he has taken those pains, this is a question of which his readers will not allow the author a voice, nor even an opinion; from the tribunal of the public there is no appeal, and it is fit that it should be so, otherwise we should not only have rivers of ink expended in bad writing, but oceans more defending it; for he that writes in a bad style, is sure to 'retort' in a worse."
-Colton
Today's offering:
Someone mentioned "poker face" ... As to suggest a demeanor I possess. And at the same time daily,
many people try to suggest what I am feeling or thinking. Though most
cannot begin to know. But let's take the "I" from the equation to make
it universally understood.
"Poker Face" implies in my thought: a
face, character, or front which you have no sure idea what lies behind
it. We could look it up which often is done, but this is the first
thought that comes to me when I think the name. That being said, if you
do not know what is behind it, beneath the cards, why do you wish to
guess? Why would you believe you know what is behind it? Perhaps it's
the gambler in us. Perhaps it's the pure card counting logic that
believes they know what's next. Only the spirit of mind differs, no
matter similarities, from individual to individual. Do not mistake the
infinite for a game confined to 52 cards. Do not attempt to know what is
in one spirit not of yourself. This may place in your possession cards
not suited for our hand. Instead let the cards fall where they may and
wait for the aces to be played and leave the jokers out of the deck. We
all know the Aces from the Jokers when they appear and know an "ace up
the sleeve" is the most superior. As such, a seemingly weaker hand of cards can overtake the greatest if in mind their is no doubt.
We must remember a cover of the book means very little, or even the ink
or words, what's possessed in it goes much deeper and is felt to the
fullest by more than just the eyes. Who knows what truly lies behind another spirit save the relationship between said spirit and the Supreme HEART?
My Kindest Regards
Someone mentioned "poker face" ... As to suggest a demeanor I possess. And at the same time daily, many people try to suggest what I am feeling or thinking. Though most cannot begin to know. But let's take the "I" from the equation to make it universally understood.
"Poker Face" implies in my thought: a face, character, or front which you have no sure idea what lies behind it. We could look it up which often is done, but this is the first thought that comes to me when I think the name. That being said, if you do not know what is behind it, beneath the cards, why do you wish to guess? Why would you believe you know what is behind it? Perhaps it's the gambler in us. Perhaps it's the pure card counting logic that believes they know what's next. Only the spirit of mind differs, no matter similarities, from individual to individual. Do not mistake the infinite for a game confined to 52 cards. Do not attempt to know what is in one spirit not of yourself. This may place in your possession cards not suited for our hand. Instead let the cards fall where they may and wait for the aces to be played and leave the jokers out of the deck. We all know the Aces from the Jokers when they appear and know an "ace up the sleeve" is the most superior. As such, a seemingly weaker hand of cards can overtake the greatest if in mind their is no doubt.