Escritas - Poems List

Thomas Jefferson

We must not let our

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

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Anonymous

He who thinks by the

He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.

79

Ramayana

Men hail the rising sun

Men hail the rising sun with glee, They love his setting glow to see, But fail to mark that every day In fragments bears their life away.

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William Shakespeare

I had rather have a

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

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Chuck Palahniuk

A minute of perfection was

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

54

Israel Zangwill

The Past: Our cradle, not

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

55

Johnson

The habit of looking on

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

28

Ramayana

Whate?er the work a man

Whate?er the work a man performs, The most effective aid to its completion? The most prolific source of true success? Is energy, without despondency.

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D. H. Lawrence

But better die than live

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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Bob Dylan

Some people feel the rain.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

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Thomas Fuller

An ounce of cheerfulness is

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

37

Ramayana

To bad as well as

To bad as well as good, to all, A generous man compassion shows; On earth no mortal lives, he knows, Who does not oft through weakness fall.

37

The Best of the Best (motion picture)

To save a Life in

To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.

20

Alfred Korzybski

Any proposition containing the word

Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

26

Thomas Carlyle

Oh, give us the man

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

57

Randolph

Reprove not in their wrath

Reprove not in their wrath incens?d men, Good counsel comes clean out of season then; But when his fury is appeased and past, He will conceive his fault and mend at last: When he is cool and calm, then utter it; No man gives physic in the midst o? th? fit.

16

Maxwell Maltz

You can always find the

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

39

Oprah Winfrey

I do not know what

I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

21

Randolph

Spare not, nor spend too

Spare not, nor spend too much, be this thy care, Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare. Who spends too much may want, and so complain; But he spends best that spares to spend again.

14

Madame Swetchine

We are rich only through

We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.

36

Native American Proverb

May your life be like

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

19

Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

62

Randolph

First think, and if thy

First think, and if thy thoughts approve thy will, Then speak, and after, what thou speak?st fulfil.

11

Horace Mann

To pity distress is but

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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