Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 111
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes
Source: This is his poem entitled Dreams. From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes.
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Wisdom 112
We are the ones we have been waiting for
June Jordan
Source: from her "Poem for South African Women"
Comment: And now the title of a book by June Jordan's friend Alice Walker
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Wisdom 113
Absence diminishes commonplace passions
and increases great ones,
as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (1678)
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Wisdom 114
There must be a beginning of any great matter,
but the continuing unto the end
until it be thoroughly finished
yields the true glory.
Francis Drake
Source: Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham on 17 May 1587
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Wisdom 115
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience,
and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
Source: Dialogues (1954)
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Wisdom 116
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end:
then stop."
Lewis Carroll
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
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Wisdom 117
It ain't over till it's over.
Yogi Berra
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Wisdom 118
Of making many books there is no end;
and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Ecclesiastes 12:12
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Wisdom 119
Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
Source: "Of Studies" in Essays (1625
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Wisdom 120
I finished that book before the author did.
Sonia Nevis
Source: Sonia said this to me one day when I was lamenting not having finished a book.
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