When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man RUTH BELL GRAHAM His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of ... WALTER DE LA MARE Not a believer in the mosque am I, Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I. I am not the pur... BULLEH SHAH A precious mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his centur... EMILY DICKINSON For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die he does not die a death of sham... OSCAR WILDE The Lord builds up Jerusalem, And gathers nations to his Name: His mercy melts the stubborn so... ISAAC WATTS Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a r... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A tired man lay down his head in a dusty room so dim, and for so long his wife did shake ROMAN PAYNE Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more fait... ALFRED TENNYSON I am the slave of the Master of Prophets And my fealty to him has no beginning. I am... يوسف النبهاني An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere amon... W.B. YEATS Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when yo... L.M. MONTGOMERY The old women in black at early Mass in winter are a problem for him. He could tell by their ey... JACK GILBERT Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who w... GAUTAMA BUDDHA God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the ... WILLIAM COWPER Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WHAT IS TRUTH? Truth is not a thing Or a concept. It is as multidimensional SUZY KASSEM Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the begi... L.M. MONTGOMERY THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER The man in the corner Is dying with words He's crying... SUZY KASSEM This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written excuse. This is my life. Now it is clea... PABLO NERUDA And who are you, the proud Lord said that I must bow so low? Only a cat of a different co... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pe... EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, ... OVID The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack. The round world Should have ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him t... RICHARD BRAUTIGAN The Things that Cause a Quiet Life My friend, the things that do attain The happy li... HENRY HOWARD When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I. We are on par. He jus... LANG LEAV Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops"... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you wil... KABIR I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I ai... STEPHEN KING From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE CAUSE AND EFFECT You can give a man who has never given you a good word, Volumes of ... SUZY KASSEM Truth And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him,... GWENDOLYN BROOKS DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'Sh... PATRICIA BRIGGS THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE Before you examine the body of a patient, Be patient to lear... SUZY KASSEM All are equal Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And... JAMES SHIRLEY Could I but acquaint the world with JOSEPH LEWIS Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i... JOHN FOWLES He who leads Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawn That rises unafraid and full of joy<... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of ... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss. A dan... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,... SOPHOCLES Even when I was a very young man, I was looking for the purpose of life; I was looking fo... DEBASISH MRIDHA He Is Not Dead I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man; the storm gray sea Y... SOPHOCLES THE WEATHER OF LOVE Love Has a way of wilting Or blossoming At the s... SUZY KASSEM The only ghosts, I believe, who creep into this world, are dead young mothers, returned to see... J.M. BARRIE Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is reall... T.S. ELIOT you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highw... WARSAN SHIRE Yes. Kissing. Overrated." "I could change your mind," Zach said, surprising the hell out ... TRACY SUMNER For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change ... NICHOLAS A. BASBANES Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise Hath chid down all the majesty of England; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If a man have not order within him He can not spread order about him; And if a man have no... EZRA POUND While a man desires a woman, His mind is bound As closely as a calf to its mother. DHAMMAPADA Child of shadows, once born of flesh Un-winged, amidst fear and agony ‘Fraid of th... ZUBAIR AHSAN Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness ... EDWIN MARKHAM Now he haunts me seldom: some fierce umbilical is broken, I live with my own fragile hopes and ... JAMES KAVANAUGH The Weaver My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the... BENJAMIN MALACHI FRANKLIN Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, th... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the o... OSAMU DAZAI Oh! Pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep, I'll come and pace the deck with ... THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of d... FELICIA HERMANS You are not white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not black, but golden. You a... SUZY KASSEM Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, F... TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS The Chorus Line: The Birth of Telemachus, An Idyll Nine months he sailed the wine-red sea... MARGARET ATWOOD He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shinin... LAUREL A. ROCKEFELLER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never change... MARTHA MEDEIROS If I be the first of us to die, Let grief not blacken long your sky. Be bold yet modest in you... NICHOLAS EVANS Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching... ANNE CARSON Father! My father knows the proper way The nation should be run; He tells us childr... EDGAR A. GUEST So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?" "What?" TAHEREH MAFI Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar: this is not proper. THEODOTUS (outraged). How! GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Hunter woke suddenly. A noise. It was a noise unlike anything he’d ever heard before. Close! ... MICHAEL GRANT Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble,... WILLIAM GOLDMAN Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. Howeve... SHANNON L. ALDER THE CONSCIOUS HUMAN You are not just white, but a rainbow of colors. You are no... SUZY KASSEM On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the... KAHLIL GIBRAN I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws i... STASIA WARD KEHOE According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did... JOHN GREEN Mr. Fogg accordingly tasted the dish, but, despite its spiced sauce, found it far from palatable. He... JULES VERNE Verily, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and fo... MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD On a Fine Morning” in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) WHENCE comes Solac... THOMAS HARDY Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengr... GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the ni... WENDELL BERRY Season late, day late, sun just down, and the sky Cold gunmetal but with a wash of live rose, a... ROBERT PENN WARREN A grim expression came over Syah’s face. “The colt you speak of lost its mother during a storm. ... D.M. RAVER Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And wi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed. "Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le... DEREK LANDY A mother's love is like an island In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter HELEN STEINER RICE Behold, A ram caught in a thicket by its horns; Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. B... WILFRED OWEN THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich; He gave away his millions to the colleges... FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS
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HORACE Buy the rumor and sell the fact HORACE No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slo... HORACE The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at HORACE It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and... HORACE Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w... HORACE He who is greedy is always in want. HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour. HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom. HORACE Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. 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HORACE With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis) HORACE There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno... HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong. HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. HORACE Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment. HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself. HORACE I will not add another word. HORACE He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be... HORACE Faults are soon copied. HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind. HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. HORACE A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi... HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice. HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled. HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. HORACE There is measure in all things. HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. HORACE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m... HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy. HORACE The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born. HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while. HORACE I shall not altogether die. HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by. HORACE Apollo does not always keep his bow strung. HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine HORACE Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. HORACE He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it ... HORACE A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. HORACE