Escritas — Poems List

Bernard Weisberger

While history is much more

While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities.

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Kate Chopin

There are some people who

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

24

The London Times

Our lives are like the

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

29

Iggy Pop

What do you do with

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

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Fanny Burney

I am ashamed of confessing

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

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Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself?

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is only one thing

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

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Malcom Mclaren

Frustration is one of the

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

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Adrienne E. Gusoff

The world is round; it

The world is round; it has no point.

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Virginia Woolf

The older one grows, the

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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Jonathan Berry

The tragic mistake of so

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

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Robin Sharma

it's when the sun shines

it's when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest.

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Simone Weil

Imagination and fiction make up

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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Adrienne E. Gusoff

Things could always be worse;

Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.

37

Niccolo Machiavelli

We have not seen great

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

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Edward Young

Too low they build, who

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

85

Jean Kerr

Man is the only animal

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.

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Mary Wilson Little

There is no pleasure in

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

33

Niccolo Machiavelli

Is necessary to take such

Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.

286

H. G. Wells

The past is but the

The past is but the beginning of a beginning.

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John F. Kennedy

Too often we...enjoy the comfort

Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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Jane Wagner

Our ability to delude ourselves

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.

118

Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

Let them hate us, as

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Nurture your mind with great

Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.

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