On a Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday afternoon) and the weather was fine and dandy for a walk around Hardwick Hall Country Park.
Lots of other people out and about too, making the most of the warm sunshine and getting their steps in before tomorrow's forecasted heavy rain arrives.
Love this view here across the Serpentine Lake to the Temple of Minerva, an 18th century folly designed by James Paine and constructed between 1754 and 1757.
Its imposing presence is helped by being built on an elevated section of the park.
Dedicated to 'Minerva' the Roman goddess of wisdom and patroness of the Arts.
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Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]
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One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all. [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.] (Source (Spanish)). Alternate translations: One part of the world laughs at the other, and both laugh at their common folly. [Flescher…
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]
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The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency. [Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.] (Source (German)) Leo…
Aaaaand that’s a wrap on Tod — who I started because I had a chance to play #Turnip28 this week, and took long enough that I totally missed it. Seems appropriate!
Faith And Folly by Mary Brotherton
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q-1zCZItxvk https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLJFS68S As we go through life we make decisions. Sometimes they are foolish. Sometimes they are not so foolish. However, there is always something more powerful to get us through. Faith and Folly is filled with such stories by Author Mary Brotherton. Real life stories with life lessons of faith and folly Shine cross shape in the end of wooden path at sunsethttps://midnight-publishing.org/2026/04/11/faith-and-folly-by-mary-brotherton-2/
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]
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A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery. [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement,…
🆕 🧙♂️🏛️ 🇬🇧 New location feature: The Druid’s Temple, England.
Lost in the forests of #Yorkshire, a series of stone pillars form a circle.
This isn't an actual "Druid's Temple", it is an elaborate 19th-century folly.
However, the site is tied to unusual local folklore.
Explore these tales and more history and photos 👇
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/other/druids-temple-yorkshire-england/
#DarkTourism #Folly #EnglishHeritage #NorthYorkshire #Temple #Stone #Folklore #Story #Mystery
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