Escritas - Poems List

John Steinbeck

We find that after years

We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us.

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Vidal Sassoon

The only place where success

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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Sadi

The sage who engages in

The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people must not expect to be treated with honour; and if a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for a common stone will break a jewel.

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Norman Douglas

You can construct the character

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

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Douglas Adams

To summarize: it is a

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

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Clare Booth Luce

Courage is the ladder on

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

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Henry Ward Beecher

The cynic is one who

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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Sadi

Whosoever hath not knowledge, and

Whosoever hath not knowledge, and benevolence, and piety knoweth nothing of reality, and dwelleth only in semblance.

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Gerard Houllier

Today you play for a

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

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Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of going

Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.

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Sadi

Eschew that friend, if thou

Eschew that friend, if thou art wise, who consorts with thy enemies.

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Aristotle

Character is that which reveals

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

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Jimi Hendrix

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

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Dr. Linus Pauling

The best way to have

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

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Sadi

Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is

Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is odious, but most of all in men of learning; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive.

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Anonymous

Early civilizations complained about still

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

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Robert Greenleaf

Many attempts to communicate are

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

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Bruce Lee

The consciousness of self is

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

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Alvin Toffler

Man has a limited biological

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

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Sadi

Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome

Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.

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Voltaire

Common sense is not so

Common sense is not so common.

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Jesus

What does it profit a

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?

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Sadi

Though you may yourself abound

Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty.

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Madame Swetchine

In this world of change

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

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