poems for a teacher

poems for a teacher





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poems for a teacher poems for a teacher poems for a teacher







Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli



She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles. ~Louise Jordan Miln, The Feast of Lanterns



This house is protected by killer dust bunnies. ~Author Unknown



Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. ~Voltaire



The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells." ~Author Unknown



I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. ~Mae West



The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. ~Willa Sibert Cather



No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. ~Thomas Mann



Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion



Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb



There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression



The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic - all the filth of your progress, in fact - is destroying, little by little, our beautiful traditions of the past. ~"The Garden," Chapter 6



You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~Joseph Joubert



To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ~Henri Amiel



There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart



Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. ~Author Unknown



The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up



With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. ~Abraham Lincoln



Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~Aldous Huxley



Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. ~Virginia Graham, Say Please, 1949

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