Escritas — Poems List

Gianni Vattimo

It is only thanks to

It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist.

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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

It might be better had

It might be better had I not come.

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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

You don't know that by

You don't know that by killing him you were killing me".

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Oprah Winfrey

Real integrity is doing the

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

She drove me away like

She drove me away like a dog ! Poor Nicky ! Poor Russia !

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Pearl Buck

I feel no need for

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

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Virginia Kelley

There is nothing like a

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

have been reading the Bible

have been reading the Bible a good deal lately, and if we believe in the sublime sacrifice of God the Father in sending His Son to die and rise again for us, we shall feel the Holy Spirit lighting our way, and our joy will become eternal, even if our poor human hearts and earthly minds pass through moments which seem terrible.

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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

I have a nature of

I have a nature of a dog - when I suffer, I hide myself".

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Pearl Buck

The young do not know

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

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Forrest Gump

Life is like a box

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

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Rabindranath Tagore

When I stand before thee

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

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Pearl Buck

Man was lost if he

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Your idol is shattered in

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

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Rabindranath Tagore

The burden of the self

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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George Sand

Guard well within yourself that

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

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Pearl Buck

The bitterest creature under heaven

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Emancipation from the bondage of

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

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Oprah Winfrey

I trust that everything happens

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.

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Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

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Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world

We live in the world when we love it.

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Pearl Buck

If you want to understand

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

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Alfred A. Knopf

An economist is a man

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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