Powerful Extracts:
Extracts
from Shakespeare's Sonnet:
"Love's not Time's
fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass
come:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I
never writ, nor no man ever loved"
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"Of
course, it is the paradoxes and unusual results that lead to abandonment of
ideas, adjustment of our intuition
or the
discovery of new ideas"- Leon Cohen
"I saw
the angel in the marble. I carved until I set him
free!" --Michaelangelo
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Extracts
from Kipling's IF
"If you can make
one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of
pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never
breath a word about your loss;
If you can talk
with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with
kings--nor lose the common touch
If you can
dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can
think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and
Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same"
Extracts
from Wordsworth's Solitary Reaper:
"No
Nightingale did ever chaunt
More
welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady
haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so
thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the
Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest
"Will
no one tell me what she sings?-
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off
things,
And battles long
ago"