Escritas - Akhenaten

Bio

Akhenaten known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV, was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC.

Poems List

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The barb in the arrow

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

True wisdom is less presuming

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

As the moon retaineth her

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Those who gave thee a

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

When I look back now

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

In all thy undertakings, let

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.