Escritas — Poems List

Ruby Manikan

If you educate a man

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The poet only asks to

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Things that were hard to

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

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William Wharton

What is love? As far

What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.

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Helen Gurley Brown

Good girls go to heaven,

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

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Ansel Adams

There is nothing worse then

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

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Kahlil Gibran

That which seems most feeble

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.

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Horace

Wisdom is not wisdom when

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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Charles Dickens

Reflect on your present blessings,

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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Nancy Astor

The penalty of success is

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

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George Orwell

Orthodoxy means not thinking -

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

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Marie Curie

Life is not easy for

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

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Mae West

It is better to be

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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Charles Kingsley

We act as though comfort

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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Edward Abbey

No tyranny is so irksome

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

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George Orwell

The object of persecution is

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

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Muhammad Ali

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

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H. L. Mencken

Puritanism: The haunting fear that

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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George Orwell

One does not establish a

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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Mark Twain

[He was] a solemn, unsmiling,

[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the body and mind

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

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Margaret Turnbull

When a man meets catastrophe

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

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Anonymous

Liberty is the right to

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

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George Orwell

In general, the greater the

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

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