Life: Like Flakes of Snow

Like flakes of snow that fall unperceived upon the earth,

the seeming unimportant events of life succeed on another.-

As the snowflakes gather, so our habits are formed.-

No single flake that is added to this pile produces a sensible change.-

No single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man’s character.-

But as the tempest hurls the avalanche down the mountain and overwhelms the inhabitant and his habitation, so passion, acting on the elements of mischief which pernicious habits have brought together, may overthrow the edifice of truth and virtue.
- Bentham ©

LIFE is a web, time is a shuttle, and man is a weaver. The principle of action is a thread in the web of life. Of that web, two things are true, that which enters therin will reappear, and nothing will reappear which was not put therein.
- J. H. Newman

Snow Flakes

I counted till they danced so
Their slippers leaped the town,
And then I took a pencil
To note the rebels down.
And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig,
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig!
- Poem by Emily Dickinson