Robert Browning: For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the priz

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged — Robert Browning

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

Robert Browning

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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day ca — Horace
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived a — Martial
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can o — John Keats
The composer is seldom a great theorist; the theorist is never a great composer. — Samuel Butler
When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who — Rumi
Force always attracts men of low morality. — Albert Einstein
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne
We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled. — Michel de Montaigne
In short, if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was — Virginia Woolf in The Three Guineas .
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me — Mark Twain
Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams. — Fernando Pessoa