Miscellaneous
Poems :Quotes
A few quotes, from people far more quick witted than I."Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
"Cowardice asks, Is it safe?
Expediency asks, Is it politic?
Vanity asks, Is it popular?
but Conscience asks, Is it right?
"Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard,
...every man of every nation has done that
...'tis the living up to it that's difficult."
"How few are our real wants! and how easy it is to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable."
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
"Nothing, no experience, good or bad, no belief, no cause, is in itself momentous enough to monopolize the whole of life to the exclusion of laughter."
"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star."
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