Thursday, February 23, 2006
[1685 - George Frederick Handel, composer, born in Halle, Germany]
[1787 - Emma (Hart) Willard, pioneer in higher education for women, born in Connecticut]
[1821 - John Keats, poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome]
[1868 - W.E.B. DuBois born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts]
[1945 - 5 Marines and a Navy corpsman raise the US Flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima]
Good Enough
What is Well and Truly done is Good Enough,
and stranger of this Warning take ye heed:
Demand not Perfection in what is Commonplace,
lest in seeking out Perfection ye Succeed.
William's Whimsical Words:
Forgiveness is the antidote for the poison of perfection.
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