Poems List

Tyron Edwards

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

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Amit Ray

Searching outside of you is

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

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Ahmed Korayem

People aren’t stupid. They’re ignorant.

People aren’t stupid. They’re ignorant.

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Thomas Carlyle

I don't pretend to understand

I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Seek for the endless life

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A life of pleasure makes

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

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Ahmed Korayem

It is simply bestial how

It is simply bestial how people have an incessant need to own anything they can’t have and to destroy anything that they can’t comprehend

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Thomas Carlyle

If those gentlemen would let

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

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Brian Sutton-Smith

The parent who gets down

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some little pieces of sand

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

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Ahmed Korayem

True lust knows no bounds.

True lust knows no bounds. Marriage or otherwise" - Buck, Mental Hell

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Thomas Carlyle

Sarcasm I now see to

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

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Margaret Lowenfeld

Play is an essential function

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

A leader whose speech is

A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

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Ahmed Korayem

So many ways to hell

So many ways to hell and only one leading to heaven. It truly takes a Divine force to keep an imbalanced universe such as this one from collapsing in on itself

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Thomas Carlyle

A man cannot make a

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

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Yar Chaikovsky

Within two to three years,

Within two to three years, we will be talking about patent reform again. You can bank on it.

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Anonymous

Religion is a man using

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

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Ahmed Korayem

The only accidents I know

The only accidents I know of are incidents that have been subjected to a serious case of mislabeling

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Thomas Carlyle

The past is all holy

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

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Voltaire

I believe that there never

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Modern man uses ideas and

Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no justice here;

There is no justice here; there is no justice there; there is no justice anywhere!

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Thomas Carlyle

The world is a republic

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

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