Escritas — Poems List

William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

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W. H. Auden

We must love one another

We must love one another and die.

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Melody Beattie

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

87

L. Ron Hubbard

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

82

Aristotle

All human actions have one

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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E. M. Forster

Because he once wrote, We

Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him.

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L. Ron Hubbard

The only time anyone has

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

90

Oswald Chambers

Never let the sense of

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

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Dorothy Thompson

Peace has to be created,

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

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W. H. Auden

We must love one another

We must love one another or die.

122

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

86

Jane Austen

Life is just a quick

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

55

Benjamin Disraeli

The magic of first love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

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Bertolt Brecht

Do not fear death so

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

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Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Study without desire spoils the

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

70

US Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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