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Time is but the stream I go a-fishi…

13 Oct , 2011  

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I […]

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Margaret Fairless Barber

To look backward for a while is to …

13 Oct , 2011  

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. Great short quote and quotation by: Margaret Fairless Barber ,

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To sin in silence while others doth…

13 Oct , 2011  

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men. Great short quote and quotation by: Ella Wheeler Wilcox ,

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Sir William Osler

To study the phenomenon of disease …

13 Oct , 2011  

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir William Osler , British (Canadian-born) physician (1849 – 1919)

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J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"

To the biologist the problem of soc…

13 Oct , 2011  

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll […]

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Bill Watterson, "Calvin", Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

Today my spirit is going to school …

13 Oct , 2011  

Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed. Great short quote and quotation by: Bill Watterson, “Calvin”, Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons , US cartoonist (1958 – )

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Sun-tzu

Victorious warriors win first and t…

24 Mar , 2011  

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Great short quote and quotation by: Sun-tzu , Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)

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Sun Tzu

Victorious warriors win first and t…

24 Mar , 2011  

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win. Great short quote and quotation by: Sun Tzu ,

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We dance in a circle and suppose, w…

15 Feb , 2011  

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Frost , US poet (1874 – 1963)

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We judge ourselves by what we feel …

15 Feb , 2011  

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , US poet (1807 – 1882)

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Longfellow

We judge ourselves by what we feel …

15 Feb , 2011  

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Great short quote and quotation by: Longfellow ,

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We judge ourselves by what we are c…

15 Feb , 2011  

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , US poet (1807 – 1882)

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