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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Khalil Gibran
Sad Truth You Heart Joy Giving Sympathy Has-Been Find See Given Only Shall Delight Weeping Look Joyous Sorrow Sorrowful Been Which Again Your Deep
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man Hero Minutes He Longer Five Than Brave Braver Ordinary Ordinary Man
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats
Dreams You Softly Only Feet Because Spread Being Poor Your Tread
Into each life some rain must fall. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life Rain Fall Must Some Each
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
Education Losing Temper Ability Self-Confidence Almost Almost Anything Without Listen Anything Your
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot
Emotions Personality Those Only Poetry Emotion Know Course Loose Escape Want Turning Means Who Expression Things
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind. Maya Angelou
Saying You Fool Be Kind Plant Brilliant Will Sense Reap Right Things Kind Tells Wrong Wrong Things Know Without Goes Just Common Common Sense Right Things
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Oliver Goldsmith
Love Old Wine Old Friends Manners Everything Books Saint Patrick's Day Friends Times Old Books Old Wine
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. Rumi
Love Garden Love Is Joy Spring Autumn Other Beyond Sorrow Limit Without Fresh Always Condition Yields Than Green Either Fruits Many
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides
You Fool Sense Foolish He Talk Calls
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats
Truth Beauty Earth Know Need
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke
Love Wonderful Sky Living Other Side Distance Distances Once Possible See Between Accepted Makes Continue Infinite Closest Human Human Beings Which Against Loving Succeed Them Realization Whole Beings Even Each Grow
The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature Earth Laughs Flowers
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. Lord Byron
Love Friendship Never Does May Often Grow
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. Alden Nowlan
Day Wise Adolescent Imperfect Adult He Himself Becomes Child Forgives Them
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love Does Cultivate Dominate
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great Enthusiasm Nothing Without Achieved Ever
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. William Falconer
God Sense Believe Obliged Feel Intellect Intended Same Endowed Us Use Reason Who
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe
Faith Wise Man Happy Humanity Will Active Think More Only He Exertion Nor Years Years Ago Effect Than Human Now
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. William Blake
Great Great Things Men Mountains Meet Done Things
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg
Life Time You People Will Other Spend Spent Be Careful Determine Only How Your Lest Coin Careful
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Khalil Gibran
Wisdom Me Before Philosophy Laugh Bow Cry Does Greatness Children Which Keep Away
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash
Love You Marriage Admit Wrong Cup Up Whenever Loving Your Keep Right Shut Shut Up
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
Man Perception Doors Everything Would Were Infinite The Doors Appear
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. Maya Angelou
History Book Wonderful Black One Book Black History American Just Taught Native Native American American History Jewish
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Walt Whitman
Beautiful Nature Me Garden Sunrise Walk I Can Give Give Me Undisturbed Where Flowers
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