William Cowper
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
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He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
Love is something eternal.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.