“ Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ”
- Matsuo Basho- Copy
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“ Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
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“ Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. ”
- Matsuo Basho- Copy
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“ The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine. ”
- Richard Saunders- Copy
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“ Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue! ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
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“ A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! ”
- Barbara Bush- Copy
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“ Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train. ”
- Henry Lawson- Copy
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“ The path of light and the path of darkness are thought to be the world's two eternal paths. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 3K
“ Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ The Dog and the Shadow A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ The Two Dogs A man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house. When he returned home after a good day's sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil. The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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