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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. Khalil Gibran
Love Love Is Will Possessed Possesses Unto Nor Sufficient
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. Langston Hughes
Me Democracy Everybody See Lord Still Swear Means Why
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
Other Alike Recognize Ourselves See More Learn Than Human Human Beings Beings Each
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou
Good Needs Book Reading Habit Make Him Continuing His Child Any Form Deep Helps
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me. Maya Angelou
Myself Needs Me People Before Pay Humility Else I Can Someone Reminds Come Does Been May Us Paid Who Prepare Here Need
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts. Octavio Paz
Time Great Silence Memory Personality Wind Own Think Corner Our Distinctive Ghosts Blends Footsteps Noises Around Same Same Time Which Producer Unique Street
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life Maturity Plant Single Live Flower Tree Air Earth Hundreds At Least One Thousands Seed Seeds Parent Casting Vegetable Tens Come Perish Content Does Least Up Itself Replace May Themselves Fills
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man Long Own Everything Way Seems His His Way Stands
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert Frost
Work People World Rest Willing Some Them Full
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. Rod McKuen
Cats Pet Admiration Only Endless Want Company Sleep
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. Rumi
Heart Simple Earth Out Sunlight Seek Borrowed Splendor Piece Fell Source Shines Forever Wall Which Your Why Received Set
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes. Rumi
Love Soul Heart Eyes First Gave My Soul Heard Up Moment
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. Thomas Tusser
Nature Spring Sweet April May Showers Flowers
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman
Truth Soul Whatever Satisfies
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. William Blake
Love God Mercy Too Dwell Dwelling Where Pity
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. William Cowper
God Plants Way Mysterious He Perform Footsteps His Wonders Moves Storm Sea Rides
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth
Heart Communication Paper Your Fill
Time brings all things to pass. Aeschylus
Time All Things Pass Things Brings
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. Alexander Pope
Man Eyes World Glasses Own Magnifying Look Greatest His Person
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happiness Life Man Consist Absence Mastery Does Passions His
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sympathy Crown Remembering Sorrow Times Happier
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Life Love Thankful Hope Thanksgiving Fear Too Much Men Free Somewhere Whatever Living Too Winds Rise No Life Never River Safe Dead Up Thank Gods May Much Sea Even Brief Ever Lives Set
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht
Life Death Fear Rather Inadequate Much
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Cesare Pavese
You Travel Light Fears Wish Take Envies Off Selfishness Far Your Fast
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Cesare Pavese
Life Memories Lies Forgotten Richness
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay
Will Men Seen Think Herd Mad Has-Been Slowly Only Recover Well Said Go Been Senses While
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