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The Book of Joseph is an untranslated text identified by Joseph Smith after analyzing Egyptian papyri that came into his possession in 1835. Joseph Smith taught that the text contains the writings of the ancient biblical patriarch Joseph. From the same papyri collection, Smith produced the first part of the Book of Abraham, but was killed ...
Who Can Sail Without the Wind? ( Swedish: Vem kan segla förutan vind?, lit. 'Who can sail without wind?') is a Swedish folk song and lullaby known from Swedish speaking areas in Finland, assumed to originate from the Åland -islands between Finland and Sweden in the Baltic Sea. The opening line is found in the fifth stanza of an 18th-century ...
Ame ni mo makezu. Ame ni mo makezu (雨ニモマケズ, 'Be not Defeated by the Rain') [1] is a poem written by Kenji Miyazawa, [2] a poet from the northern prefecture of Iwate in Japan who lived from 1896 to 1933. It was written in a notebook with a pencil in 1931 while he was fighting illness in Hanamaki, and was discovered posthumously ...
When you carve out time to open up—even if it's just you and your journal—the tears may naturally come, says Suarez-Angelino. 10. Yawn. Another simple way to help get the tears flowing is by ...
For other uses, see Weep (disambiguation). A young child crying. Crying is the dropping of tears (or welling of tears in the eyes) in response to an emotional state or pain. Emotions that can lead to crying include sadness, anger, excitement, and even happiness. The act of crying has been defined as "a complex secretomotor phenomenon ...
1707. " Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed " is a hymn by Isaac Watts, first published in 1707. The words describe the crucifixion of Jesus and reflect on an appropriate personal response to this event. The hymn is commonly sung with a refrain added in 1885 by Ralph E. Hudson; when this refrain is used, the hymn is sometimes known as " At the Cross ".
Phaethon ( / ˈfeɪ.əθən /; Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, romanized : Phaéthōn, lit. 'shiner', pronounced [pʰa.é.tʰɔːn] ), also spelled Phaëthon, is the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the sun god Helios in Greek mythology . According to most authors, Phaethon is the son of Helios, and out of a desire to have his parentage confirmed ...
The title of the book is taken from the novel's epigraph: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones", attributed to Saint Teresa of Avila. [1] According to Random House senior editor Joseph M. Fox, Capote signed the initial contract for the novel on January 5, 1966—envisioned as a contemporary American analog to Marcel ...