Caedmon quotes

“Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!”
-- Caedmon

Source : Cædmon (1832). “Cædmon's metrical paraphrase of parts of the holy Scriptures, in Anglo-Sax., with an Engl. tr., notes and index by B. Thorpe”, p.8

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“The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.”
-- Caedmon

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“I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.”
-- Caedmon

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“We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.”

“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”

“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”

“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”

“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”

“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013

“When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.”

“The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.”

Source : Albert Murray, Roberta S. Maguire (1997). “Conversations with Albert Murray”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.”

“Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.”

Source : Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)