Escritas - Poems List

Benjamin Franklin

We must hang together, gentlemen...else,

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I cannot say whether things

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

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Schopenhauer

The mother of the useful

The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no thought in

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a perpetual instruction

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

The genius of you Americans

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.

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Schopenhauer

Faith is like love, it

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

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Henry Havelock Ellis

Thinking in its lower grades,

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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Albert Einstein

If my theory of relativity

If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew.

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Nancy Newhall

Conservation is humanity caring for

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

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René Descartes

Except our own thoughts, there

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

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Schopenhauer

To form a judgment intuitively

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

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Alan Moore

Our situation has the disaffected

Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.

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A. N. Whitehead

The art of progress is

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

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Schopenhauer

The first forty years of

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

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Buddha

As the flectcher whittles and

As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

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William Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'Tell me not, in mournful

'Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

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Baudjuin

No matter how hard you

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

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Schubert

Want and sorrow are the

Want and sorrow are the gifts which folly earns for itself.

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Woody Allen

There are three rings involved

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

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George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

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Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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John Selden

No man is the wiser

No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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