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This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]


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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) This poem will never reach its destination.
VOLTAIRE Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
GAIL TSUKIYAMA The good enemy accompanies you on the journey, but you will never reach your destination with him.
TOBA BETA The good enemy accompanies you on the journey,
but you will never reach your destination with h...
TOBA BETA Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
E...
CLAUDIA BAKKER You will never reach ur destination if you keep stopping & Being nosey looking at others big success...
FLAMESTARTA You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Life not just to live and enjoy and die one day.....its an extraordinary journey to go through this ...
RAVI KUMAR SINHA Reach the sky, but touch the ground. Lift me up, when I am down. The sunshine brings the clouds away...
DECLA MARIANO JLUCK I do not attach
any exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life is
there to be lived...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Be patient enough to reach your destination. Remember we can walk different paths just to reach the ...
MORAKENG SEKGOKA I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on ...
DANIEL TAMMET Struggle only when if its absolute necessity, if you will struggle on every step you can never reach...
BIJENDRA KUMAR Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numero...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD BYRON Each result has action steps to back them up. The action steps are like a map. If you us them like a...
JACQUI RIVAIT People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
EDMUND BURKE Difficult road sometimes lead to beautiful destination.The more difficult to reach the destination, ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
ROBERT G. MENZIES Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
ROBERT MENZIES You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Achieving something without a plan is like reaching a destination without a map. No guarantee you wi...
MOHAMMED MUSHTAQ GK Believe in your own talent .Embrace your individuality and show the world just how great you can be....
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It doesn’t feel like I am going to reach my destination on this road for future goals and commitme...
KURT E. FLOWERS SR. If you wish to fly to new heights, begin by setting your sights on a destination you can reach and t...
DEBBIE FORD You will never get to your divine destination if you are blinded by His (God's) will.
тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (......
JOHN FOWLES Walking somewhere is similar to walking through snow. You walk and reach your destination. But, as y...
SS038NICK Be like a train, it gets to its destination on time by staying on the track.
VIKRANT PARSAI The day will come
When my body no longer exists
But in the lines of this poem
I will ...
SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO This will be Alberta's premier destination resort,
BRIAN LEE Keep on dreaming, you will get to your destination.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Those who reach their Destination use Determination that’s born from Inspiration.
RVM Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
PIERRE DE FERMAT Posterity will pay everyone their due.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Ode to Catawba Wine
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ode To A Butterfly,
NICKEL CREEK To reach your destination, follow the directions of your heart. It knows the way.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Sometimes you simply need to drift aimlessly, in order to reach the destination of aim.
LIONEL SUGGS Consumer driven (health care) will only reach its full potential when people have access to this kin...
BRIAN JENSEN I suggest we work on all these elements and reach the final destination of universal suffrage as qui...
DONALD TSANG Believe in self & confidence paves way for attainment of success & to reach the desired destination.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.
MICHAEL FRAYN We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are...
RACHEL CARSON We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are...
RACHEL CARSON Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope y...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
MARCUS AURELIUS If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any numbe...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Some people are meant to frame your destiny but not reach the destined destination with you.
ADHISH MAZUMDER Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS We speak about it this way: We're taking this vessel, so to speak, out of its pier, and the destinat...
VIRGIL HUNTER I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUS No matter how much money government pumps into the economy, if the money does not reach the right de...
LULLU KRUGEL Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab hi...
BIBLE I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
JOSE RIZAL Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leade...
ROBERT MENZIES This party will, ultimately, be judged on its ability to deliver on its promise.
TONY BLAIR Distraction is an enemy; don't let it be an interference. Keep on marching with confidence and deter...
PETER SAYSOMPHANE I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
FITZHUGH DODSON Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
FITZHUGH DODSON The only time when you lose is the time when you decide.Never decide to loose and reach your destina...
AHSAN HASSAN She was reminiscent of a first autumn leaf, patiently waiting to surrender herself to the cooling ea...
LAUREN VALENCIA Marriage should never be the final destination,but a predestination that can convey us to the final ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posteri...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE Your dreams will never reach the stars if they never leave the ground.
JAMES YAGER Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a th...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN And life goes on like this,
an uncomplete poem.
ARZUM UZUN China will see its total population, working-age population and aging population all reach their pea...
ZHANG WEIQING Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over ...
ROBERT FROST Overall, ... the monetary addition will help the school reach its budgetary goals.
JANET LONG This puts Orlando on the map as a medical destination.
BUDDY DYER This poem is very long
So long, in fact, that your attention span
May be stretched to its ...
COLLEEN HOOVER I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the...
EDGAR ALLAN POE This online destination will provide great content and frequent updates about the film.
OREN AVIV Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMAN Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Always the journey, never the destination.
SIMON RATTLE With innovation & creativity find ways to reach your goals, but never neglect the experiences you ga...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST We simply cannot allow the ship to get any closer to its destination. India has spoken, and they do ...
JACOB HARTMANN So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait lon...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destinati...
JIMMY DEAN To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine un...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM I intended an Ode, / And it turned to a Sonnet.
AUSTIN DOBSON I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

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