Poems List

Frank Dane

Ignorance is never out of

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

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Frank Dane

The way to a woman's

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

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Rose Kennedy

Birds sing after a storm;

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

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Vince Lombardi

I've never known a man

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious.

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Vince Lombardi

Mental toughness is many things.

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

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Vince Lombardi

There is no room for

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

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Vince Lombardi

Coaches who can outline plays

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

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Vince Lombardi

All right Mister, let me

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

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Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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Charlotte Brontë

Consistency, madam, is the first

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

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Charlotte Brontë

You had no right to

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

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Charlotte Brontë

You -- poor and obscure,

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.

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Charlotte Brontë

Something of vengeance I had

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

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Charlotte Brontë

It is vain to say

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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Charlotte Brontë

But this I know; the

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

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Charlotte Brontë

Prejudices, it is well known,

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence really is an imperfect

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

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Charlotte Brontë

Reason sits firm and holds

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Altered opinions do not alter

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing has been purchased more

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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Friedrich Nietzsche

For the woman, the man

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

All of life is a

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

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