“ See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
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“ Give, if thou canst, an alms; if not, afford, instead of that, a sweet and gentle word. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
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“ Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely — calculated less or more. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
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“ All things by immortal power. Near or far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. ”
- Francis Thompson- Copy
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“ If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
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“ Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. ”
- John Donne- Copy
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“ Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more…doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. ”
- Albert Guerard- Copy
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“ Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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