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Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
Source: Jacula...
Many things are lost for want of asking.
Source: Jacula Prudentum, 1651.
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A great ship asks deep water.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth...
The brain is wider than the sky;
For put them side by side
The one the other will contain with ease -
And you...
To make a prairie
It takes clover and one bee
One clover, and a bee, and revery.
The revery alone will...
A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.
Nature is what we know -
Yet have not art to say -
So impotent our wisdom is
To her...
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring...
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and...
Painters and poets, you say, have always had an equal license in bold invention. We know; we claim the liberty for...
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Source: In Barnes & Noble Book...
Seize the day.
Source: Ars Poetica.
-- Horace, (Dec 8 65-8 BC), Roman poet,...
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Source: In The Speaker's...
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to...
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the...
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Source: In The...