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Events of the day 27 July

1937:

Was born Pan Izverna.

1930:

Was born Costache Anton.

Giosue Carducci1835:

Was born Giosue Carducci.

Hilaire Belloc1870:

Was born Hilaire Belloc.

Bob Hope2003:

Has died Bob Hope.

Eddie Rickenbacker1973:

Has died Eddie Rickenbacker.

Mikhail Lermontov1841:

Has died Mikhail Lermontov.

Gertrude Stein1946:

Has died Gertrude Stein.

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Famous quotes

Masutatsu Oyama

One must try everyday to expand one's limits.

Quote by Masutatsu Oyama about will, limits
Masutatsu Oyama

A human life gains luster and strength only when it is...

Quote by Masutatsu Oyama about life, human imperfections
Masutatsu Oyama

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote...

Quote by Masutatsu Oyama about opinion, trains, sleep, human imperfections, being, life
Masutatsu Oyama

1000 days of training...a beginer...10.000 days of...

Quote by Masutatsu Oyama about succes, day
Nicolae Iorga

Never say “it can't be done”, but start with “let's see”.

Quote by Nicolae Iorga about wisdom
Lucian Blaga

The wave is the sea's longing to kiss the shore.

Quote by Lucian Blaga about longing
Publius Syrus

Forgetting is the remedy for suffered injustices.

Quote by Publius Syrus about forgetness
Garabet Ibraileanu

It is said that time passes. Time never passes; we pass...

Quote by Garabet Ibraileanu about time
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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O Remain

O remain, dear one, I love you,
Stay with me in my fair land,
For your dreamings and your longings
Only I can understand.
You, who like a prince reclining
Over the pool with heaven starred;
You who gaze up from the water
With such...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about water, country, miracle, age, olderness, charm, magic, secret, moon, love

In the Nature of Joy, in the Geometry of Your Snowflake

Poetry and Tears

It seems a ballet of bridal cherry blossom, breezing April’s
photons, my Sweetheart: it seems to snow innocently, rustlingly,
and the chorale of brownish leaves of the secular, imperial
platans resounds, upon the pilgrimaged golden penguins...

01 feb 2010
Ion Pachia-TatomirescuPoems by Ion Pachia-Tatomirescu about joy, nature, home, language, celebrity, house, poetry, kiss, tears, stars

Christmas Also Came Here

Christmas also came here
To soothe our pain,
White snow is falling over my life
It’s snowing over my soul,
White snow is falling
Over my life
That ends here.

The star begins to shine
On the holy manger
And once again three magi...

Tudor GheorgheSongs by Tudor Gheorghe about christmas, pain, sin, life, end, tears, dream, soul, celebrity

The insolvent debtor

Home walked she from the mill
Her sack was down and she
Could not lift it again.
"May I help? " "What? " "For pay! "
And in the narrow lane
Good girls shouldn't wave away
Such offers and say "nay".
That she agreed was plain.

With...

George CoșbucPoems by George Coșbuc about kiss, help, judges, meetings, question, things, end, good, good luck, home

Folklore

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A Wool-seller kens a Wool-buyer.

Proverbs and old sayings

Wha' a sober heart conceal a drunken tongue reveal.

Proverbs and old sayings about heart

Sex is like war, both are exciting but neither informative.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sex, war

Many man makes an errand to the hall to bid the Lady good-day.

Proverbs and old sayings about day, good, good luck, man

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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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...

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...

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...