Escritas - Poems List

Edith Sitwell

I am patient with stupidity,

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

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Anonymous

Sometimes the most urgent and

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.

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R Chamberlain

It is better to be

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

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Isadora Duncan

The finest inheritance you can

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

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Anonymous

The atom, being for all

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

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Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.

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R Chamberlain

There is not half so

There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend.

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Marcelene Cox

Parents are often so busy

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

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George William Curtis

Happiness lies, first of all,

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

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Vincent Van Gogh

For my part I know

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

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Charles Buxton

The first duty to children

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.

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R Chamberlain

If a man be not

If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort?he is not so wretched as he deserves.

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Anonymous

Perhaps one day this too

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

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Giorgos Zambetas

Experience is a comb that

Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.

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Francois Rabelais

In all companies there are

In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.

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Black Elk

Grown men can learn from

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

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Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.

137

Homer Simpson

Never underestimate the power of

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

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Francois Rabelais

In sooth, it is a

In sooth, it is a shame to choose rather to be still borrowing in all places, from everybody, than to work and win.

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O. A. Battista

The best inheritance a parent

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

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Oscar Arias

The effect of one upright

The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.

20

Yann Martel

To choose doubt as a

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

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Anonymous

Cheerfulness greases the axles of

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

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Francois Rabelais

Time, which gnaws and diminishes

Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increases benefits, because a noble action of liberality done to a man of reason doth grow continually by his generously thinking of it and remembering it.

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