Escritas — Poems List

Daniel Webster

Educate your children to self-control,

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

If there were 'intelligence flu',

If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!..

68

George Washington

Government is not reason; it

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

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F. Phelps

Our best work is done

Our best work is done when it needs to be.

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Daniel Webster

I was born an American

I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.

60

SAYEED

Life is nothing but the

Life is nothing but the little time which spend in a park called the world after the time u cannot stay there.

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Malcolm Forbes

When in doubt, duck.

63

William Pitt

Necessity is the plea for

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

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SAYEED

Death is nothing but to

Death is nothing but to the last chance to meet the god

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Daniel Webster

Every man's life, liberty, and

Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.

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Wilson Mizner

I respect faith, but doubt

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.

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Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew an early-rising,

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

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Daniel Webster

If we work upon marble,

If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

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Sayeed(life)

There is always a unlucky

There is always a unlucky person behind a lucky person or the lucky person can not be lucky.

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Edmund Burke

Your representative owes you, not

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

47

George Santayana

The need of exercise is

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our mind is like a

Our mind is like a fog; even a moderate wind disperses it easily.

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Daniel Webster

Failure is more frequently from

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

47

H. L. Mencken

Theology is the effort to

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

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Erma Bombeck

I told you I was

I told you I was sick.

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Daniel Webster

Good intentions will always be

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

195

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The greatest masters are the

The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.

69

Mary McCarthy

We are the hero of

We are the hero of our own story.

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Philip Sheridan

If I owned Texas and

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.

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