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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. Khalil Gibran
Me You Giving More Generosity Than Which Need
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world. Marie de France
Fool World Impress Thinking Loudly
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. Maya Angelou
Best Food Will Comfort Comfort Food Always Fried Fried Chicken Chicken Greens
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.' Maya Angelou
You Courage Yourself Enough Else Later Say Ways Someone Take Develop Sooner Sooner Or Later Up Human Representative Race Then Really Stand Stand Up Human Race
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. Nikki Giovanni
Life Myself Failure Try Mind Think About Only Forgive Really Imagine
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. Omar Khayyam
Moving On Half Finger Having Writes Written Thy Wit Piety Line Nor Cancel Moves Moving
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. Paul Valery
Work Abandon Finishes Never He Merely His Artist Really
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. Phaedrus
Truth Speak Fraud Shameful After Whoever Even Believed Ever Ever After
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Illusion Every Meet About Optical Person
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Me You Hate Tell Know Quotations
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost
Dance Secret Ring Suppose Knows Middle Round
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. Robert Frost
Great Heart Tender Never Generous Also Truly Any Compassionate
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. Robert Frost
Power Own Control Strongest Long-Term Maintenance Most Force Effective Dominant Dominated Domination Deployed Which Forms Acquiesce Consent Violence Guaranteeing
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. Robert Herrick
Me Valentines Day Kiss First Add Hundred Thousand Give Give Me More Make Score Up Begun Done Then Twenty Million
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. Rumi
Strength Stronger Opposing Objects Invisible Within Us Grows Desire Two
I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.' Rumi
Love Me You Soul Free Beginning Way Dawn Calls Within End Ignorant Companion Set
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot
Time Entertainment People Lonesome Joke Medium Television Remain Permits Same Listen Same Time Which Millions Millions Of People
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self. Ted Hughes
Good You Yourself World Opportunity Living Meditation Back Way Immersed Some Totally Gives Self Good Way Fishing Provides Than Being Form Ordinary Turning Communion Connection Whole Deeper Levels
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Character Man Out Would Never He Knew Real Real Character Measure Found
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser
Christmas Good Year Once Once A Year Cheer Make Good Cheer Play
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. W. H. Auden
Love You Valentines Day Meet River Over Sing Till Dear Salmon Jumps Mountain Africa Love You China Street
Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt Whitman
Brainy Nothing Qualities Personal Endures
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake
Sad Grief Too Kind Relief See Seek Sorrow Another Woe
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake
Love Hate Energy Progression Attraction Without Existence Love And Hate Human Human Existence Repulsion Reason Necessary
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. William Blake
Day Bible Black White Thou Both Day And Night Read Where Night
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats
You World Sympathy Waters Wild More Weeping Come Fairy Understand Hand Hand-In-Hand Than Child Human Full Away
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