MARGARET MEAD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

'Tis the Last Rose of Summer (Thomas Moore)
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DAVID HUME

Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

A love poem by Queen Elizabeth I
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MAHATMA GANDHI

Where there is love there is life.

I wandered lonely as a cloud (Wordsworth)
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WILLIAM W. PURKEY

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.

beginning tomorrow
POETRY FOR PLEASURE
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ALBERT EINSTEIN

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

New - - - POETRY FOR PLEASURE - - - New
Every week-day a poem, ballad, humorous verses or song lyrics
beginning Monday 29th August
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CONFUCIUS

If one’s mind is elsewhere, one will look but not see, listen but not hear.

ANON

Don't pretend you know.
Start the day fresh and new.
The only thing you know is that you don't know.

MARY KAY ASH

Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as the mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

THOMAS EDISON

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

NICHOLAS SPARKS

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

THOMAS HARDY

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Three short poems by Thomas Hardy have been added today to
THOMAS HARDY - THE WESSEX POET
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MAE WEST

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough

LAURENS van der POST

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right

Viking Saying

Good sense is the best of burdens. While travelling, it is better than gold.

PIERRE NICOLE

We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent.

GEORGE HERBERT

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

King James Bible - Proverbs

A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

CHARLES LAMB

The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth
and be found out by accident

ARISTOTLE

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way.

G.K. CHESTERTON

The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost.

AMANDA McBROOM

It is the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance.
It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

FRANCIS GRAY

Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.

NISARGADATTA

Wisdom tells me I'm Nothing.
Love tells me I'm Everything.
Between the two my life flows.

Chinese Proverb

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

GEORGE SAND

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.


Poetry is not a subject that appeals to many people. However, it has been very encouraging to note the interest that is being shown in the new Thomas Hardy blog. If you haven’t visited it yet, you may find it worth a look.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him, than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

SYDNEY HARRIS

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time.
It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

ERIN MAJORS

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

BLOG STATS
During the month of July my most popular blogs were -
My own Selection of Pre-Raphaelite Paintings - 619 hits
Wise Men Say -527 hits
John's Gallery - 347 hits

RICHARD BRAUNSTEIN

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.