“ Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ”
- Sharon Tate- Copy
“ Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
“ As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings - that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth. ”
- Bacchylides- Copy
“ Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.z. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
“ What are your historical facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest facts? ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
“ To begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ”
- Decimus Magnus Ausonius- Copy
“ Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
“ O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. ”
- Marcus Arelius Antoninus- Copy
“ Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
“ If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ”
- Epicurus- Copy
“ Here hath been dawning another blue day: think, wilt thou let it slip useless away? ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
“ Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature. ”
- Mohammed- Copy
“ And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
“ The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell. ”
- David Thomas- Copy
“ Begin — to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ”
- Ausonius- Copy
“ Clear therefore they head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgement will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular. ”
- William Penn- Copy
“ Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk — the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set… ”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi- Copy
“ When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen. ”
- Henry Twells- Copy
“ 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
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