Xenophon quote: "I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them."

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL

While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece.
WILLIE HAYNES

The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS

Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU

Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition....
WILLIAM OSLER

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of ...
JOSEPH GOEBBELS

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words h...
ZHUANGZI

Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO

In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfe...
LOUIS DUDEK

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION

We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been m...
DYLAN THOMAS

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL

How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.

The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is be...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV.

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
CONFUCIUS

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
CONFUCIUS

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men
CONFUCIUS

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
JOHN BUNYAN

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i...
ALEXIS TOCQUEVILLE

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It i...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is men...
BELA KAROLYI

I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER

The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON

To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE

A picture is a poem without words.
CONFUCIUS

Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the...
EDGAR ALLAN POE

It is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart! -John Bunyan.
JOHN BUNYAN

To see them here is a dream come true. Los Angeles has been my hometown for so long, so to have them...
MARIA ALTMANN

His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING

For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged...
SHERRILYN KENYON

In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life valu...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
JOHN BUNYAN

No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT

With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

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