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"The shortest answer is doing"
George Herbert, Poet
"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored"
Lord Byron, Poet
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"The historian is a prophet looking backward"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
"The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together"
Saadi, Poet
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"
Walter Savage Landor, Poet
"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook"
Oliver Goldsmith, Poet
"I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran"
Anne Sexton, Poet
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"
Octavio Paz, Poet
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"
Carl Sandburg, Poet
"Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door"
Torquato Tasso, Poet
"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
"Each day is the scholar of yesterday"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one"
George Herbert, Poet
"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise"
George Herbert, Poet
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"The busy have no time for tears"
Lord Byron, Poet
"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin"
Lord Byron, Poet
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed"
Robert Frost, Poet
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length"
Robert Frost, Poet
"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"You can learn from anyone even your enemy"
Ovid, Poet
"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
"We are all born marked for evil"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
"Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future"
Mattie Stepanek, Poet
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