Escritas - Poems List

Mary Higgins Clark

Happines is like mercury. Hard

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

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Leonard Bernstein

Music . . . can

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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Tricia Marrapodi (1968-2008)

Being a twin is like

Being a twin is like being born with a best friend.

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The Hitopadesa

By the fall of water-drops

By the fall of water-drops the pot is filled: such is the increase of riches, of knowledge, and of virtue.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mediocrity does not see higher

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

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Sigmund Freud

If you want to endure

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

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Kelly Marrapodi-Munsell

Flowers are a lot like

Flowers are a lot like friendships - beautiful but not meant to last.

22

The Hitopadesa

Knowledge produces mildness of speech;

Knowledge produces mildness of speech; mildness of speech, a good character; a good character, wealth; wealth, if virtuous actions attend it, happiness.

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Paul Valéry

Politics is the art of

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imitation is suicide.

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The Hitopadesa

Liberality attended with mild language;

Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it?these four qualities are with difficulty acquired.

29

Sana Dabbas

Do not compare yourself to

Do not compare yourself to other people, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make your own beautiful mark in life.

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Phil Donahue

What really keeps me going

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

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George Orwell

Political language. . . is

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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The Hitopadesa

Skill in advising others is

Skill in advising others is easily attained by men; but to practise righteousness themselves is what only a few can succeed in doing.

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Sana Dabbas

One word of encouragement during

One word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Joe Darion

One man scorned and covered

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

36

Ann Frank

I want to go on

I want to go on living even after my death,

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The Hitopadesa

Empty is the house of

Empty is the house of a childless man; as empty is the mind of a bachelor; empty are all quarters of the world to an ignorant man; but poverty is total emptiness.

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Sana Dabbas

Encourage the genius in everyone

Encourage the genius in everyone you meet.

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Edgar Z. Friedenberg

What we must decide is

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

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Richard Bach

Every person, all the events

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

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The Hitopadesa

A bad man, though raised

A bad man, though raised to honour, always returns to his natural course, as a dog?s tail, though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil, retains its form.*

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Sana Dabbas

Don't cry over a lost

Don't cry over a lost friend. And remember, that person lost a friend too.

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