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Events of the day 26 April

Ștefan Augustin Doinas1922:

Was born Ștefan Augustin Doinas.

David Hume1711:

Was born David Hume.

Ludwig Wittgenstein1889:

Was born Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Marcus Aurelius0121:

Was born Marcus Aurelius.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson1910:

Has died Bjornstjerne Bjornson.

William Cowper1800:

Has died William Cowper.

Masutatsu Oyama1994:

Has died Masutatsu Oyama.

Vasile Voiculescu1963:

Has died Vasile Voiculescu.

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Famous quotes

Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all...

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about happiness, thinking, life
Marcus Aurelius

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about life
Marcus Aurelius

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in...

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about power, people, nothing
Marcus Aurelius

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it...

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about nature, death
Harriet Jacobs

The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her...

Quote by Harriet Jacobs about spring

Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life...

Quote by Anita Krizzan about spring
Reginald Heber

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

Quote by Reginald Heber about spring
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

Quote by Algernon Charles Swinburne about spring
William Blake

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the...

Quote by William Blake about philosophy, sleep, night
Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is...

Quote by Henry Ford about succes, progress, beginning
Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the...

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson about judgment, judges, day
Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Quote by Samuel Beckett about advice




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The Keynote

The bone is a joy only when it's the forehead bone,
when it protects, does not disjoin,
as are the alkaline vertebrae
from the difficult depths of the flesh and the wedding.
I'm resigned to losing the habit
of my manner of being,
but...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about habits, being, body, time, hunger, marriage, solitude, death, joy, celebrity

The Lake

Water lilies load all over
The blue lake amid the woods,
That imparts, while in white circles
Startling, to a boat its moods.

And along the strands I'm passing
Listening, waiting, in unrest,
That she from the reeds may issue
And...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about water, fall, feelings, lie, moon, light

And If...

And if the branches tap my pane
And the poplars whisper nightly,
It is to make me dream again
I hold you to me tightly.
And if the stars shine on the pond
And light its sombre shoal,
It is to quench my mind's despond
And flood with...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about peace, mind, celebrity, stars, dream, heart, moon, soul, light

Desire

Come now to the forest's spring
Running wrinkling over the stones,
To where lush and grassy furrows
Hide away in curving boughs.

Then you can run to my open arms,
Be held once more in my embrace,
I'll gently lift that veil of yours...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about dream, spring, fall, happiness, harmony, face

Folklore

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Laughter is the best medicine

Proverbs and old sayings British about laughter, medicine, old, olderness

Men do not know liberality.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Idle hands are the devil's workshop.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil

Better reap two day too soon than one too late.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness

There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.

Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about spirit, law, man

Who came back from the grave and told the story?

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian

Traditional Irish Curse

Spells and incantations Irish

Traditional Wexford Curse

Spells and incantations British

What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

Fire.

Riddles

If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.

Proverbs and old sayings American


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A priori - a posteriori

A priori - a posteriori

A priori - the term means before any experience, independent from any experience, from the earlier. This term is in close relationship with its opposite a posteriori , from experience, from the later. Both expressions are used in Philosophy and...

Bovarism

Bovarism

Bovarism is the term that denotes a person's state of discontent towards its own existence, constructing a fictitious personality to match his ideals. This alter ego of the person functions as a protection from too cruel world for which is not...

Phoenix bird

Phoenix bird

Quite often we hear around us being used the expression - "Reborn from the ashes as the Phoenix bird" and perhaps many times, we fail to make the connection between the depicted situation and expression – Phoenix bird. The word originates in the...