I see the rich man, proudly fed And richly clothed, pass by; I see the shivering, houseless

wretch With hunger in his eye; For life's severest contrasts meet Forever in the city street. -Mary Howitt, A City Street. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedythat is every man's tragedy. -Phili p Roth Poetry is all nouns and verbs. -Marianne Moore Adaptiveness is the peculiarity of human nature. -Emerson Good the more communicated more abundant grows. -John Milton It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good . -Cicero By ever taking out and never putting in, one soon reaches the bottom. -Spanish Proverb One is quick to suspect where one has suffered harm before. -Publilius Syrus You cannot hit a goal that doesn't exist. -Entjik Jeffrie While we are postponing, life speeds by. -Seneca With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prospero us people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them other wise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of goo d government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. -Tho mas Jefferson In playing music you have to mentally pay attention. -Steve Gaddis, December 10 , 2010. Composition is a discipline; it forces us to think. If you want to 'get in touch with your feelings,' fine talk to yourself; we all do. But, if you want to comm unicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discov er, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down and then cut out th e confusing parts. -William Safire The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. -Simms Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. -Wordsworth Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itsel f with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity an d peace. -Cicero Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning thos e things which may come to pass. -Terence A fact in our lives is valuable, not so far as it is true, but as it is signific ant. -Goethe A fellow who speculates is like an animal on a barren heath, driven round and ro und by an evil sprit, while there extends on all sides of him a beautiful green meadow-pasture. -Goethe Afflictions are blessings in disguise. -Proverb A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism. -Victor Hugo A full cup is hard to carry. -Proverb Attend to what you are doing. -Latin Saying It is of more consequence to act considerately than to think sagely. -Cicero A God all mercy is a God unjust. -Young A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet distinctly, shows us what to hold by and what to shun. -Goethe A good beginning makes a good ending. -Proverb A good inclination is only the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing s trokes are from the will. -South AS good king is a public servant. -Ben Jonson

A good presence is a letter of recommendation. -Proverb A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. -Willmott A good thought is a great boon. -Bovee A great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. -Goerge Eliot A great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by ass imilation than by friction. -Heine A great man is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him. -Landor Geology is the history of the earth and its inhabitants, as read in the rocks of the earth's crust. -W. H. Norton, The Elements of Geology. When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. -Donna Tartt If, sir, there could be a resurrection from the foot of the gallows, if the vict ims of justice could live again, collect together, and form a society, they would, however loat h, soon find themselves obliged to make justice, that justice under which they f ell, the fundamental law of their state. -Fisher Ames, Speech on the British T reaty. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to reco gnize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. -David M. Ogilvy It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opp osite. -Sam Levenson Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. -Ralph Waldo Em erson The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. -Thomas Bailey Aldr ich, Ponkapog Papers. A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. -Gibbon A hooks well lost to catch a salmon. -Proverb Easy to say is hard to do. -French Proverb A jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. -Schiller The moon on the tower slept soft as snow. -R. Bulwer Lytton, Aux Italiens. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impo ssible to do that thing. -Dr. J. A. Holmes No one can be held bound to do what is impossible. -French Proverb All other things must; man is the only creature who wills. -Schiller What you think belongs to all; only what you feel is your own. -Schiller Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation. -Goethe Without silence there can be no sound; without sound there can be no silence. -Jonathan Harnum Knowledge alone is not power, but it is raw potential. -China Sinclair Attitude is what comes out of a person when things arent going right. -China Sin clair