Desiderata
by Max
Ehrmann
Invictus
by
William Ernest Henley
The Passionate Shepherd To His
Love
by Christopher Marlowe
Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe
Shall I Compare Thee To
A Summer's Day?
by William Shakespeare
She Walks In
Beauty
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How
Do I Love Thee?
by Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
When, In Disgrace With
Fortune and Men's Eyes
by William
Shakespeare
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be
found to take its place.
- Johoann W. von Goethe ( 1749-1832)
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when
one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Why should there not be a
patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
- Abraham
Lincoln
The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on.
- Omar Khayyam
We should have a great many fewer disputes in
the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only,
and not for things themselves.
- John Locke
I am the
inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
- Horace Greeley
(1811-1872)
With every civil right there has to be a corresponding
civil obligation.
Edison Haines
Wise sayings often fall on
barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
(1813-1875)
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left
free to combat it.
-Thomas Jefferson
(Regarding criticism of
the practice of ending sentences with prepositions)
That is the sort of
English up with which I will not put.
-Winston Churchill
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to
learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as
he lives.
-Clay P. Bedford
One half the world cannot
understand the pleasures of the other.
-Jane Austen (1775-1817) in
Emma
Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of
man, except for all the others.
-Winston Churchill
The life
so short, the craft so long to learn.
-Hippocrates (c. 460-377 b.c.)
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested.
-Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Never
in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
-Winston Churchill
How do I love thee? Let me count the
ways.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) in Sonnets from the
Portuguese
Whatever is worth doing, is worth doing well.
- Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Learning without
thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
-
Confucius (c. 551-479 b.c.)
Two things fill the mind with ever new
and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection
concentrates upon them, the starry heaven above me, and the moral law within
me.
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
I have a dream that one day
this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
- Martin
Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
-Emma Lazarus
(1849-1887) in The New Colossus
Under the bludgeonings of
chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
-W.E. Henley (1849-1903) in
Invictus
To every thing there is a season, and a time to
every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to
plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time
to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a
time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
-The Bible,
Ecclesiastes 3:1-4
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