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Your Occasional Stoic –The Duration of Man’s Life is but an Instant
The duration of man’s life is but an instant; his substance is fleeting, his senses dull; the structure of his body corruptible; the soul but a vortex. We cannot reckon with fortune, or lay our account with fame. Put bluntly, the life of the body is but a river, and the life of the soul…
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Your Occasional Stoic –To Worry About Any Particular Event is to Revolt Against the General Law of Nature
Man’s soul dishonors itself, when it does all it can to become an growth, a tumor as it were on the Universe. To worry about any particular event is to revolt against the general law of Nature, which comprehends the order of all events whatsoever. Again it is dishonor for the soul when it has…
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Your Occasional Stoic — Beyond Opinion There is Nothing.
Beyond opinion there is nothing. The objections to this saying of Monimus the Cynic are obvious. But obvious also is the utility of what he said, if one accept his pleasantry as far as truth will warrant it. Mediations 2:15 Monimus, another slave turned philosopher, a cynic who was famous for “everything is vanity”. All…
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Your Occasional Stoic — The present Moment is the Same For All Men
Even if you were to live three thousand years or more remember that no man loses any other life than that which now lives, nor lives any other than that which he is now losing. The longest and the shortest lives come to one effect. The present moment is the same for all men, and…
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Your Occasional Stoic — Nothing is More Miserable Than to Range Over All Things
Nothing, says the poet, is more miserable than to range over all things, to spy into the depths of the earth, and search, by conjecture, into the souls of those around us, yet not to perceive that it is enough for a man to devote himself to that divinity which is within him, and to…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Alice N
Name: Alice N Sex: Female Age (at the time of first BQ): 23 Height (at the time of first BQ): 5’4” Weight (at the time of first BQ): 128 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Edinburgh, UK Tell us a little about the race. Flat/net downhill. A good London alternative but a…
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Your Occasional Stoic — To Dread a Work of Nature is a Childish Thing
It is within our rational power to understand how swiftly all things vanish; how the corporeal forms are swallowed up in the material world, and the memory of them in the tide of ages. Such are all the things of sense, especially those which ensnare us with pleasure or terrify us with pain, or those…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Emily J
Name: Emily J Sex: Female Age (at the time of first BQ): 30 Height (at the time of first BQ): 5’5” Weight (at the time of first BQ): 115 lbs At which marathon did you get your first BQ? San Antonio Rock ‘n Roll – Dec 2019 Tell us a little about the race. Ended…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Andy B
Name: Andy B Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 19 Height (at the time of first BQ): 5’10” Weight (at the time of first BQ): 135 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Chicago 2010 Tell us a little about the race. This was my first marathon, and came about…
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Your Occasional Stoic — Think of Death
Do every deed, speak every word, think every thought in the knowledge that you may end your days any moment. To depart from men, if there be really Gods, is nothing terrible. The Gods could bring no evil thing upon you. And if there be no Gods, or if they have no regard to human…
Milo and the Calf 