Escritas — Poems List

Anonymous

It is wise to keep

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

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Benjamin Franklin

He who falls in love

He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.

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Charles Buxton

Experience shows that success is

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

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Theocritus

Sleeping, we image what awake

Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*

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Harlen Ellison

What is not nailed down

What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was not nailed down.

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George Bernard Shaw

Life is not meant to

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.

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Theophrastus

Flattery may be considered as

Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters.

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Ausonius

Begin -- to begin is

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon

All of us could take

All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.

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George Eliot

Every man who is not

Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

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Theophrastus

Grossness is not difficult to

Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.

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Sophocles

To revive sorrow is cruel.

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George Eliot

But pride only helps us

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

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Elbert Hubbard

To know when to be

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

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Percival

One hour of thoughtful solitude

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

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Theophrastus

Petty ambition would seem to

Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction.

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George Eliot

Childhood has no forebodings, but

Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

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Erich Fromm

Immature love says, I love

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."

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Johnson

The love of retirement has

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

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