Short quotations about, while - Page 5

Confucius

While you are not able to serve men…

15 Feb , 2011  

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?…While you do not know life, how can you know about death? Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11 , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

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Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

Work while you have the light. You …

19 Aug , 2010  

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Great short quote and quotation by: Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel ,

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J. R. R Tolkien, Elrond from The Lord of the Rings

Yet such is oft the course of deeds…

27 Apr , 2010  

Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. Great short quote and quotation by: J. R. R Tolkien, Elrond from The Lord of the Rings ,

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Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275

You are providing for your disciple…

27 Apr , 2010  

You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise […]

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