When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it.ConfuciusWrite now →Details & source
There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power.EpictetusWrite now →Details & source
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWrite now →Details & source
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chee…Thomas GrayWrite now →Details & source
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust.Francis BaconWrite now →Details & source
Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.Ralph Waldo EmersonWrite now →Details & source
Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
A victorious army secures victory before seeking battle; a defeated army fights first and then seeks victory.Sun TzuWrite now →Details & source
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their bal…Oliver GoldsmithWrite now →Details & source
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.George HerbertWrite now →Details & source
Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! Blow, bugle! answer, echoes! dying, dying, dying.Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.Charles LambWrite now →Details & source
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Henry David ThoreauWrite now →Details & source
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.Niccolò MachiavelliWrite now →Details & source
When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.Ralph Waldo EmersonWrite now →Details & source
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not t…Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpop…Thomas Babington MacaulayWrite now →Details & source