Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. William Blake

Quotes November 23, 2008

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
Sorrow
Quotations by William Blake

Confessed faults are half-mended. Scottish Proverb

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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. Robert Green Ingersoll

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. Charles Caleb Colton

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. Christian Nevell Bovee

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. Ely Culbertson

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The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls. Phyllis Mcginley

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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Anatole France

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The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. Boufflers

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If presidents don’t do it to their wives, they do it to the country. Mel Brooks

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"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you’re making a mistake you can’t undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we hadn’t been told. We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying." – Meredith Grey

“A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never …