Poems List

It is better to looked over than overlooked.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.

May God protect us from all the religions!

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Everybody hates you and that`s why I love you.

O how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man sits enshrined visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only, as God revealed himself to the prophet in the still small voice, and in a voice from the Burning Bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain invisible to man.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.

Sometimes life is a terrible thing to happen to someone.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought: they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under the ground.

Your real dreams are the ones your dreamed far before you were old enough to understand just how complicated they were to accomplish. How you respond when you find out is part of your character.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of the night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible. From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half sound, a half whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of the earth and all created things in the great miracle of nature?decay and reproduction?ever beginning, never ending?the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!

Religion is pickled God.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us, at noon we trample them under foot, and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.