Escritas — Poems List

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If God had wanted me

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

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The Midrash

Many candles can be kindled

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

27

The Talmud

There are three whose life

There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another?s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.

57

Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

The Darkness has begun. There

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.

83

Rainer Maria Rilke

Live your questions now, and

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

127

Pete Johnson

STRATEGY is; A style of

STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.

130

The Talmud

The best preacher is the

The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

63

Mark Twain

I can live two months

I can live two months on a good compliment.

119

John Dryden

Tomorrow, do thy worst, for

Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

91

Elbert Hubbard

The secret of success is

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

44

The Talmud

There are three things which,

There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.

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Eric Kopras

It is better to think

It is better to think too much, than to think too little

35

E. B. White

Weather is a great bluffer.

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

39

J. B. S. Haldane

We do not know, in

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

90

The Talmud

Mention not a blemish which

Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.

70

Publilius Syrus

Hares can gambol over the

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

22

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

76

C. C. Colton

To know a man, observe

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

27

The Talmud

Nothing is more becoming a

Nothing is more becoming a man than silence. It is not the preaching but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important. A profusion of words is sure to lead to error.

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