My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. Tagore, Rabindranath
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. Washington, George
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms Kotomichi
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my […]
My patience to his fury, and am arm’d to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his. Shakespeare, William
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. Cooley, Mason
My trade and art is to live. Montaigne, Michel De
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Bacon, Francis
Nature gave man two ends one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. Kirkpatrick, George R.
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image. Pascal, Blaise
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. Bacon, Francis
