330 ordspråk av George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimer
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
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Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
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Remember to preserve an even mind in adverse circumstances, and likewise in prosperity a mind free from overweening joy.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep an even mind
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Rule your mind or it will rule you
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Rule your mind or it will rule you
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow
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Seize the day.
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Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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