Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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A Moment's Halt--a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-- And, Lo!
he phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from....
Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire.
-- Rubáiyát. Stanza lxvii....
The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves o
or all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it....
And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.
-- Rubáiyát. Stanza lxxvii....
And when like her, O Sáki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in your blissful errand reach the spot Where I made One--turn down an empty Glass.
-- Rubáiyát. Stanza ci...
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The more we do...
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for actio...
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
-- Malcolm X (1925-1965) U.S. political activist and civil rights leade...
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
-- Malcolm X...
Truth is on the side of the oppressed. -- Malcolm X

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