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If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt. — Jairam Ramesh

If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive. — Cory Booker

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. — Edgar Lee Masters

Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education. — Ben Aaronovitch

Reckless of my mortality,
Strengthen me to behold a face,
To know the spirit of a beloved one
Yet to endure, yet to dare! — Edgar Lee Masters

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep! — Edgar Lee Masters

It takes life to love life. — Edgar Lee Masters

The one reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay. — Maggie Stiefvater

But a man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life. — Edgar Lee Masters

Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering; there is some good or positive in this experience. — Louis Hoffman

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected. — Edgar Lee Masters

Do not fall in love ... it means you have to look at someone else. — Sunny-Drunk

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one. — Edgar Lee Masters

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. — Mae West

Often morality defines our inner philosophy. — Debasish Mridha

Work for your own soul's sake. — Edgar Lee Masters

In time you shall see Fate approach you
In the shape of your own image in the mirror. — Edgar Lee Masters

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived? — Edgar Lee Masters

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender. — Edgar Lee Masters

There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love. — Edgar Lee Masters

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life. — Edgar Lee Masters

Such phantom blossoms palely shining
Over the lifeless boughs of Time. — Edgar Lee Masters

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold. — Edgar Lee Masters

And then I knew I was one of Life's fools,
Whom only death would treat as the equal
Of other men — Edgar Lee Masters

Back of every soldier is a woman. — Edgar Lee Masters

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
And what is love but a rose that fades? — Edgar Lee Masters

This is life's sorrow:
That one can be happy only where two are;
And that our hearts are drawn to stars
Which want us not. — Edgar Lee Masters

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun! — Edgar Lee Masters

To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters

Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters — Sunday Adelaja

The weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well. — Edgar Lee Masters

Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines. — Edgar Lee Masters

Remember the acorn;
It does not devour other acorns. — Edgar Lee Masters

The tongue may be an unruly member
But silence poisons the soul. — Edgar Lee Masters

The much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth. — Edgar Lee Masters

There is something about Death
Like love itself! — Edgar Lee Masters