Fernando Pessoa: To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.

To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers. — Fernando Pessoa

To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.

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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it. — Fernando Pessoa
Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one. — Fernando Pessoa
To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life. — Fernando Pessoa
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decora — Fernando Pessoa
Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful. — Alfred Tennyson
Nature has no more esteem or care for the seed of man than for the ant — Giacomo Leopardi
Ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura. — Every form as nature made it is correct. Sextus Propertius
Green is Nature's favourite colour. — Graham D Priest
近於師者貴賣，貴賣則百姓財竭 — Sun Tzu
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in du — Francis Bacon
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I a — Abraham Lincoln
O, nur eine freie Seele wird nicht alt. — Oh