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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.


Matsuo Basho

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
BASHO Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
BASHō MATSUO Don't seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise: seek what they sought.
BASHO Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
MATSUO BASHO Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you seek money, be wise; if you seek power, be strong; if you seek honor, be virtuous; if you see...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so ...
C.S. LEWIS By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range...
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they wi...
AHMED CHALABI Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acq...
ANWAR EL-SADAT Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acq...
ANWAR SADAT Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.
ENGLISH PROVERB Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow ...
TRYON EDWARDS Wise men still seek Him today.
DAN BELL Many people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want t...
ANWAR EL-SADAT Seek understanding and wisdom will follow.
JIM GENOVESE places do not change so much as what we seek in them
AUDRE LORDE Seek to join Power, do not seek to stop power because you will fail.
FRANCIS MATHEW Do not seek for the best partner, but seek for the person who makes you a better version of yourself...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for eve...
DONALD TRUMP When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
ABU BAKR People should seek to be pound wise and penny foolish.
DOUGLAS J UTBERG Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in...
EUDORA WELTY It may not be prudent to seek new things, but it is wise to see things in a new way.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize ...
PETER KREEFT Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not ...
SHANNON L. ALDER Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to...
JOHN BURROUGHS Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
ROBERT FULGHUM The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
ANNIE DILLARD Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY Seek joy in what you give not in what you get
SOURCE UNKNOWN What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
EDWARD YOUNG Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN The concerns expressed in the draft recommendation are based on the wrong premise. The Commission's ...
CHARLIE MCCREEVY I do not seek, I find.
PABLO PICASSO I do not seek. I find.
PABLO PICASSO Not to worry about what to eat is to seek advancement of the kingdom
SUNDAY ADELAJA The things we seek to do to satisfy a need in us, do they improve or impoverish us?
JIM GENOVESE Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want t...
ANWAR EL-SADAT does not seek dominion.
COLIN POWELL With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet; To seek what ancien...
JOHN BYROM Your eyes should not seek evil sights; your ears should not seek evil tales; your tongue should not ...
ATHARVA VEDA For all find what they truly seek.
C.S. LEWIS I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't see...
BONNIE TYLER Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
UNKNOWN What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us ...
HENRY GEORGE Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
HESIOD Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for g...
SARAH LACY They seek to use their arms, and we seek to use ours.
IGINO MORINI They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heave...
EMMUSKA ORCZY A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.
JULIA JOANNE BLACK We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us furt...
JAMES MCGREEVEY Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek mili...
EQBAL AHMED If you do not seek God, the devil will suggest evil to you
SUNDAY ADELAJA Do not seek revenge and call it justice.
CASSANDRA CLARE Seek,seek.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA What life does not seek salvation through Destiny?
SORIN CERIN To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in y...
BRANDON SANDERSON God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many s...
MAX LUCADO They just don't seek out the limelight. They want to be part of the community, not dominate the comm...
MICHAEL DEITCH Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If ...
WILLIAM NICHOLSON Question everything that is popular, and seek answers in what is not.
SUZY KASSEM They understand they don't have all the answers. It's good to always seek knowledge and they always ...
HOWARD MOORE Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
PETAR DUNOV Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
BUDDHA I don't seek power and do not run around.
BENOIT MANDELBROT There’s this thing about shadows.
They mimic us. They are a constant reminder of the fact tha...
CHIRAG TULSIANI The word "seek" is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, of...
STEVE MARABOLI Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Scientists seek to know the mind of god while engineers seek to imitate Him.
MARK GRANT Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is...
BAUVARD I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't...
BONNIE TYLER Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead ...
GITA BELLIN We do not seek vengeance, only to rid Palestinian society of corruption, and bring security to the s...
FARHAT ASAD Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHO There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not t...
MATSUO BASHO The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
MATSUO BASHO The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
MATSUO BASHO Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up...
MATSUO BASHO [Japanese haiku poets found something morose in the sound, an omen of the cicada's short adult life....
MATSUO BASHO There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; There is nothing you can think that is not the mo...
MATSUO BASHO Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
HORACE MANN You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE I decided to run when they asked me in the middle of the convention. I did not expect and did not se...
THOMAS MARTIN Who you are is not determined by what you wear, the money in your wallet, nor how you look. Who you ...
MARY KATE Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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MATSUO BASHO The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
MATSUO BASHO The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
MATSUO BASHO Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
MATSUO BASHO Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
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BASHō MATSUO All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow
BASHō MATSUO Old pond — frogs jumped in — sound of water
BASHō MATSUO Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice...
Or backyard love?
BASHō MATSUO Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice
BASHō MATSUO Mountain-rose petals
Falling, falling, falling now...
Waterfall music
BASHō MATSUO Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel...
Sleeping our noons away
BASHō MATSUO April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves...a butterfly
Floats and balances
BASHō MATSUO This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds.
BASHō MATSUO Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.
BASHō MATSUO Ballet in the air...
Twin butterflies until, twice white
They Meet, they mate
BASHō MATSUO Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening
BASHō MATSUO Come, butterfly
It's late-
We've miles to go together.
BASHō MATSUO Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
BASHō MATSUO The journey itself is my home.
BASHō MATSUO Suvvia, andiamo a
contemplare la neve
fino a cadervi dentro.
BASHō MATSUO When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring...
MATSUO BASHō Chrysanthemum
Silence - monk
Sips his morning tea.
MATSUO BASHō Wintery day,
On my horse
A frozen shadow.
MATSUO BASHō Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHō For a lovely bowl
Let us arrange these flowers...
For there is no rice
MATSUO BASHō