We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
We watch over those we love.
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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject. But then I shall require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermilion will be the darkest, dullest colours upon it, and beyond them there will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight the celestial eye.
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Essay first published in the Strand Magazine in 1921–22 and collected in Amid These Storms, 1932, Winston S. Churchill, Painting as a Pastime, Project Gutenberg Canada, 1932
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We finally get to be with Jesus, face to face.
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My parents died within four days of each other. I was engulfed as I ran from one bedside to another.
I can always see two points of view, which makes it hard to have a row.
Last week, when I decided to rewrite the children’s book I’ve been working on.
For the words to fly from my fingers as just occasionally they do.
Small, determined, lucky.
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