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. . . CIRCUMSTANCES see: "ACCIDENTS" see: "CHANCE" see: "DESTINY" see: "FATE" see: "LIFE" To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born and a time to die. . . A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. --Bible: Ecclesiastes Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own. --William Cowper (1731—1800) English poet and hymnodist. Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. --Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874-1880]. _Vivian Grey_, v. II, bk. VI, ch. 7 The whole world seemed so unequal, so unfair. Some people were created with all the good things ready-made for them, others were just created like mistakes. God's mistakes. --Buchi Emecheta (1944— ) Nigerian writer. _Second-Class Citizen_ [1974] A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. --Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _Vicar of Wakefield_, ch. XXI If, of all the words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hasn't ought to be!' --[Francis] Bret Harte (1836—1902) American author. "Mrs. Judge Jenkins" [1867] We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. --William Ralph Inge (1860—1954) English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911—1934]. Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstances, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. --George Henry Lewes (1817—1878) English philosopher and literary critic. or --Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. --Horace Mann (1796—1859) American educator. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _Mrs. Warren's Profession_ [1893], act II For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been!' --John Greenleaf Whittier (1807—1892) American poet. "Maud Miller" [1854] You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. --Zig [Hilary Hinton] Ziglar (1926— ) American author and motivational speaker.   CITIES . . see: "COUNTRY LIVING" see: "NEIGHBORS" see "PLACES" for other related links A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. --Aristotle (384—322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Great stir and bustle prevails at Constantinople in consequence of the great conflux of merchants who resort thither from all parts of the world, from Babylon, from Medea, from Persia, from Egypt and Palestine as well as from Russia, Hungary, Italy and Spain. In this respect the city is equalled only by Baghdad, the metropolis of the Muslims. --Benjamin of Tudela (f. 12th cent.) Spanish-Jewish rabbi who was the first known European traveler to approach the frontiers of China. _Masa'ot Binyamin_ (The Voyages of Benjamin) I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_ [1812-1818], canto III, st. 72 - Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the other. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. If you would be known and not know, vegetate in a village. If you would know and not be known, live in a city. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. - The city is an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense. --Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814—1880) American clergyman and author. Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. Between about 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. the life of the city is civil. Occasionally the lone footsteps of someone walking to or from work echo along the sidewalk. All work that has to be done at those hours is useful — in bakeries, for example. Even the newspaper presses stop turning forests into lies. Now and then a car comes out of the silence and cruises easily through the blinking traffic lights. The natural inhabitants of the city come out from damp basements and cellars. With their pink ears and paws, sleek, well-groomed, their whisker combed, rats are true city dwellers. Urban life, during the hours when they reign, is urbane. --Henry Fairlie (1924—1990) British author. "The Idiocy of Urban Life" The outdoors is what you have to pass through to get from your apartment to a taxicab. --Fran Lebowitz (1946— ) American humorist. The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. --Desmond Morris (1928— ) English anthropologist and author. _The Human Zoo_ [1969] - I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot; [ . . . ] Though the latitude's rather uncertain, And the longitude also is vague, The persons I pity who know not the City The beautiful City of Prague. --William Jeffrey Prowse (1836—1870) British poet. _The City of Prague_ - The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their 'Hub,' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustle and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there. --Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The American Invasion_ in the "Court and Society Review" [March 1887]. ----- boulevardier (noun): 1. A frequenter of city boulevards, especially in Paris. 2. 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