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Saqib Ali
Jan 27, 2009, 11:16:04 PM1/27/09
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So who is author of this quote?
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a
person, having neither to weigh thought no measure words, but pouring
them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together,
certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is
worth keeping, and with a breadth of kindness, blow the rest away"
So far, google search results attribute this quote to three different
people:
1) George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/oh-the_comfort-the_inexpressible_comfort_of/170845.html
;
2) Dinah Maria Mulock Craik http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik
; and
3) Anonymous - Shoshone (Native American Tribe) http://www.thegoldweb.com/voices/wisdom.htm
Any thoughts?
Alohacyberian
Jan 28, 2009, 2:22:55 AM1/28/09
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"Saqib Ali" <docbo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> So who is author of this quote?
> saqib
>
The amount of misinformation in Wikipedia is legion. If you're looking for
data you're prefer to be inaccurate or information that you know is wrong,
but, supports your point-of-view, Wikipedia is an excellent source. KM
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"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name
for ignorance."
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news:ff16bdd7-5ec3-4fc9...@p23g2000prp.googlegroups.com...
> So who is author of this quote?
>
The amount of misinformation in Wikipedia is legion. If you're looking for
data you're prefer to be inaccurate or information that you know is wrong,
but, supports your point-of-view, Wikipedia is an excellent source. KM
OBQ:
"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name
for ignorance."
~ G.K. Chesterton, quoted at
~ http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/4694-QQQ.html
--
(-:alohacyberian:-) At my website view over 3,600 live cameras or
visit NASA, the Vatican, the Smithsonian, the Louvre, CIA, FBI, and
NBA, the White House, Academy Awards, 200 language translators!
Visit Hawaii, Israel and more at: http://keith.martin.home.att.net/
John Halifax
Jun 23, 2019, 2:09:53 AM6/23/19
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Sorry I took 10 years to answer your question!
It is a passage from Dinah Maria Craik's 1859 novel, A LIFE FOR A LIFE. The character is writing in her journal:
>>> Thus ended our little talk: yet it left a pleasant impression. True, the subject was strange enough; my sisters might have been shocked at it; and at my freedom in asking and giving opinions. But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort—the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person—having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. <<<
Oddly enough, given the website in your signature, the "strange subject" under discussion (on a Sunday) was the sermon in their church about capital punishment!
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik#A_Life_for_a_Life_(1859)
(The bit about the misattribution to George Eliot might not have been on the Wikiquote page in 2009.)
This blog post, https://eddietwohawks.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/chaff-and-grain/ , originally attributed the quote to the Shoshone, but was later corrected.
And someone recently emailed me about the quote, saying an Arab student of hers had said it was an old Arabic proverb. I google'd it and found a lot of sites saying it was an old Arab proverbs; I haven't yet found a site that has an actual Arabic-language version of the quote, only English "translations" which are identical to Dinah Craik's writing.
It is a passage from Dinah Maria Craik's 1859 novel, A LIFE FOR A LIFE. The character is writing in her journal:
>>> Thus ended our little talk: yet it left a pleasant impression. True, the subject was strange enough; my sisters might have been shocked at it; and at my freedom in asking and giving opinions. But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort—the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person—having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. <<<
Oddly enough, given the website in your signature, the "strange subject" under discussion (on a Sunday) was the sermon in their church about capital punishment!
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik#A_Life_for_a_Life_(1859)
(The bit about the misattribution to George Eliot might not have been on the Wikiquote page in 2009.)
This blog post, https://eddietwohawks.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/chaff-and-grain/ , originally attributed the quote to the Shoshone, but was later corrected.
And someone recently emailed me about the quote, saying an Arab student of hers had said it was an old Arabic proverb. I google'd it and found a lot of sites saying it was an old Arab proverbs; I haven't yet found a site that has an actual Arabic-language version of the quote, only English "translations" which are identical to Dinah Craik's writing.
Anton Shepelev
Jun 23, 2019, 4:11:15 AM6/23/19
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John Halifax to person unknown:
> Sorry I took 10 years to answer your question!
Since the original article has long since expired
from most usenet servers:
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=156127713200
[the original message archived]
you must have quoted it. In fact, you ought always
to quote the relevant part of the message to which
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compliance with Netiquette, so please do so next
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> Sorry I took 10 years to answer your question!
from most usenet servers:
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=156127713200
[the original message archived]
you must have quoted it. In fact, you ought always
to quote the relevant part of the message to which
you reply for the benefit of your readers and in
compliance with Netiquette, so please do so next
time.
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