Escritas - Poems List

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every extension of knowledge arises

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

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Colonel Morgan

Actuated by the most glorious

Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Moments fly, memories remain; and

Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!

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The Hitopadesa

What a rich man gives

What a rich man gives and what he consumes, that is his real worth.

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Malcolm Forbes

Too many people overvalue what

Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.

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Queen Victoria

Great events make me quiet

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

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The Hitopadesa

The potter forms what he

The potter forms what he pleases with soft clay, so a man accomplishes his works by his own act.

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Brandon Gommer

and before you, I never

and before you, I never really knew what lonely was. I can't go a day without feeling like I'm missing something. Truth is, I am missing something. I'm missing you..

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Hippocrates

To do nothing is sometimes

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

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William Ralph Inge

We have enslaved the rest

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

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Sharday Williams

The reason we feel old

The reason we feel old is cuz we live old...change the way you live and you"ll change the way you feel.

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The Hitopadesa

Amongst all possessions knowledge appears

Amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent. The wise call it supreme riches, because it can never be lost, has no price, and can at no time be destroyed.

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Oscar Wilde

The only excuse for creating

The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.

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Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

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The Hitopadesa

Knowledge acquired by a man

Knowledge acquired by a man of low degree places him on a level with a prince, as a small river attains the irremeable ocean; and his fortune is then exalted.

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Meylin D. Bojorge

if one's only desires is

if one's only desires is to do harm to someone after they have done just about the same or maybe more to one another. karma shall strike in the oddest way & total truth will arise with proof for the one that desires the harm for that would mean they are the one who has caused more harm.

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Samuel Johnson

When once a man has

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

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