12 ordspråk av Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer
 Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. |
| Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. |
| I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. |
| Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. |
| Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. |
| No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. |
| Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable. |
| People mistake their limitations for high standards. |
| Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life. |
| Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it. |
| The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. |
| We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. |
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Proverb (1469536 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Dates (9517 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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