Escritas — Poems List

Tao Te Ching

Better stop short than fill

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

The memory should be specially

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

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Thomas Carlyle

When words leave off, music

When words leave off, music begins.

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Maxwell Maltz

We find no real satisfaction

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

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Alexander Pope

He who tells a lie

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Newpaper editors are men who

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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Anonymous

My curiosity is my creativity

My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery.

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Gerald Jampolsky

Love is letting go of

Love is letting go of fear.

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Zalman Stern

The problem with the cutting

The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed.

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William James

The stream of thought flows

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

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Frank Herbert

The mystery of life isn't

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

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Mark Twain

It is by the goodness

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

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Zalman Stern

Distributed file systems are a

Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be feared is to

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

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Jim Bishop

True love is night jasmine,

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

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Allan Williams

Character is who you are

Character is who you are when no one is looking.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As soon as any man

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

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William Stekel

The mark of an immature

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

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Frank Herbert

A process cannot be understood

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

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James Barrie

Let no one who loves

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.

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Guy L. Steele Jr.

If the programmer can simulate

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

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Plato

Man...is a tame or civilized

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

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Joe E. Lewis

You only live once but

You only live once but if you work it right, once is enough.

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Alfred North Whitehead

It takes a very unusual

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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