Escritas - Poems List

Joe Orton

The sane appear as strange

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane

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Horace Walpole

Life is a tragedy for

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

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William Ellery Channing

It is far more important

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

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Nizami

In the hour of adversity

In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds.

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Samuel Ullman

Nobody grows old merely by

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

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Orson Scott Card

Everybody dies. What matters is

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

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Omar Khayyám

Lament not Fortune?s mutability, And

Lament not Fortune?s mutability, And seize her fickle favours ere they flee; If others never mourned departed bliss, How should a turn of Fortune come to thee?

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Joseph Addison

A good conscience is to

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

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George Orwell

To live is the rarest

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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Jim Beggs

Before you put on a

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

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Omar Khayyám

To-day is thine to spend,

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

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David Riesman

The idea that men are

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

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Sigmund Freud

The first human who hurled

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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Groucho Marx

Why should I do anything

Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?

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Omar Khayyám

The value of three things

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

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Eric Hoffer

Nonconformists travel as a rule

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity

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T. S. Eliot

In a minute there is

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyone takes the limits of

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

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Omar Khayyám

I do remember stopping by

I do remember stopping by the way, To watch a potter thumping his wet clay; And with its all-obliterated tongue It murmured, ?Gently, brother, gently, pray!?

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Robert

This duality has been reflected

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "heart" or intuition, another.

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Marilyn Ferguson

The greatest revolution in our

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

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Charles Atlas

Nobody picks on a strong

Nobody picks on a strong man.

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Nathaniel Brandon

Reason and emotion are not

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

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Omar Khayyám

This body is a tent

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

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