Poems List

Learning is finding out what you already know

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

If thy garments be clean and thy heart be foul, thou needest no key to the door of hell.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Beauty fades; dumb is forever.

Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Dost thou desire that thine own heart should not suffer, redeem thou the sufferer from the bonds of misery.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another?s hand.

Live life to the fullest.

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.

With knowledge, say, what other wealth Can vie, which neither thieves by stealth Can take, nor kinsmen make their prey, Which, lavished, never wastes away.

God is a thing that thinks.