Poems List

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Repeated sin destroys the understanding And he whose reason is impaired repeats His sins. The constant practising of virtue Strengthens the mental faculties, and he Whose judgment stronger grows acts always right.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The good to others kindness show, And from them no return exact; The best and greatest men, they know, Thus ever nobly love to act.*

Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Let none with scorn a suppliant meet, Or from the door untended spurn A dog; an outcast kindly treat; And so thou shalt be blest in turn.

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

Death comes, and makes a man his prey, A man whose powers are yet unspent; Like one on gathering flowers intent, Whose thoughts are turned another way. Begin betimes to practise good, Lest fate surprise thee unawares Amid thy round of schemes and cares; To-morrow?s task to-day conclude.*

Courage in danger is half the battle.

It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

To abstain from speaking is regarded as very difficult. It is not possible to say much that is valuable and striking.*

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.