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Post No. 16,115

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ஆயிரம் பொன்மொழிகள்! (161-180) 

ச. நாகராஜன்

பொன்மொழிகள் தொடர்கின்றன… 

161. I CAN

I Ought, Therefore I CAN.   – Kant

Politeness

An Englishman once said to the artist, James Mcnell Whistller, that the politeness of the French was ‘all on the surface’, to which he replied: ‘And a very good place for it to be’.

Professional Man – Amateur Man

A professional is a man who do is job when he doesn’t feel like it. An amateur is a man who can’t do his job when he does feel like it.     – James Agate

Immortal – Dream

If we are immortal souls, we are immortal here: death is but our great progression; let us begin to live as the immortals should.    – William Smith

Heart

My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.   – Cervantes

Heart – Love

One loving heart sets another on fire.   – St Augastine

Gentleman

I would rather prove myself to be a gentleman by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by a fond ostentation of riches.   – Izaak Walton

Gentleman – Mind – Vigour – Softness

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigour and yields to softness.    – S. Francis de Sales

Fool – Life

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; and long is life to the fool who does not know the true law.     – Dhammapada

Futility

A constant smirk upon face and a whiffling activity of the body are strong indications of futility. Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.   – Lord Chesterfield

171. Purpose – Wish

Great men have purposes: Others have wishes.

Revenge

It is certain that a man who studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which would otherwise heal and do well.                                                                                                – Bacon

Reform – Public Opinion

It is not the many who reform the world; but the few who rise superior to that Public Opinion which crucified Our Lord many years ago.                – Charles Kingsley

Rich and Poor

There are two things needed in these days, first for rich men to find out how poor men live, and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.   

Routine

Routine as a law is deadly. Routine as a resource in the temporary exhaustion of impulse and suggestion is often our salvation.                – Phillips Brooks

Prupose

A man without a purpose is soon sown at zero.                    – Carlyle

நல்ல குறிக்கோள் நயவா மனிதனிலை

ஒல்லி யிழிந்து விழும்               –  உலக உள்ளங்கள் (484)

                                         ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

Poetry

You will find poetry nowhere, unless you bring some with you.    – Joubert

கவியின் கனிவெங்கும் காணாய் உனதுன்

கவியுணர்வில்லை எனின்                   –  உலக உள்ளங்கள் (243)

                                         ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

Poetry

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.  – Shelley

ஆன்ற பெரியோர் அனுபவ வாழ்வுகளின்

சான்றுகளே காவியங்கள்                 –  உலக உள்ளங்கள் (750)

                                         ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

Poetical Mind

A right moral state of heart is the formal and scientific condition of a poetical mind.  – Newman

நீதிநெறி நிறைந்த நெஞ்சமே நேரேசீர்

ஓது கவியின் உளம்                       –  உலக உள்ளங்கள்

                                         ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

180. Idleness

Idleness is the key of beggary, and the roof of all evil.   – Purgeon

சிறுமைத் துயரெல்லாம் சேரவரும் சோம்பல்

வறுமைக் குரிய வழி                     –  உலக உள்ளங்கள் (134)

                                         ஜெகவீரபாண்டியனார்

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