Escritas — Poems List

H. L. Mencken

God is the immemorial refuge

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.

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Sir Richard Francis Burton

Do what thy manhood bids

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

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E. S. Dallas

It is good for a

It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass.

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Steve Martin

A day without sunshine is

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

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Sir Richard Steele

Whenever you commend, add your

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

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William S. Buroughs

I think there are innumerable

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

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Douglas Leonard Martin

There is no eraser on

There is no eraser on the end of a scalpel.

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Ivana Trump

Fiction writing is great. You

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

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Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself! Have faith

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

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Cicero

Anyone who has got a

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.

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Miles Davis

First you imitate, then you

First you imitate, then you innovate.

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Jasper Johns

I liked New York when

I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous.

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Confucius

If language is not correct,

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

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Charles Caleb Colton

We may lay in a

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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Josef Stalin

Gratitude is a sickness, suffered

Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.

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Miles Davis

Do not fear mistakes, there

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

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Sol Hurok

Get pleasure out of life...as

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

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H. L. Mencken

In this world of sin

In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

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Victor Hugo

A faith is a necessity

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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Josef Stalin

Die, but do not retreat.

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Saint Basil

Do not measure your loss

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

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Ken Thompson

If you want to go

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

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Josef Stalin

The only real power comes

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness of life

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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