11th English poems quotes

1.  The Schoolboy:
"All the live murmur of a summer's day" Matthew Arnold, Songs of innocence,1789
"What sweet and jocund" Shakespeare
“Show me a man who has enjoyed his school days and I’ll show you a bully and a bore”Robert Morley
“Formal approach to study often seems forbidding and difficult. Children resent having to study, claiming that a disciplined
reading destroys and damages the pleasure of it.” Dr. Mujib-ur-Rehman
“Thereis nothing in Earth intended for innocent peopleso horrible as School” George Bernard Shaw
 What's life?
"Hopesprings eternal in thehuman breast"
"The two things most human beings would choose above all- as much money and life as possible."
"Poets and philosophers have often dreamt of a happy land where there would be everlasting peace and plenty."
"Time is but theshadow of the world upon thebackground of eternity." Jerome K. Jerome
"When you try to grasp happiness it bursts." Shakespeare
"To the well organized mind is death but the next great adventure."
"Hopeless hopehopes on and meets no end,
wastes without springs and homes without a friend." John Clare Clare
"War is antithesis of peace, day the antithesis of night, and good theantithesis of evil."
 A Psalm of Life:
"For themental and spiritual growth of man, friction is necessary."
"We must not run away from our destiny."
"Time drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out." W.B.Yeats
"O you who believe! when you meet force, take a firm stand against them and remember the name of Allah much, so that you
may be successful" (10:45) Al-Anfal sorah 8
"It does not do to dwell on thedreams and forget to live."
"When you want something all the world conspires in helping you to achieve it"

2. "The world is a place of brightness, of free expression and of irresistible action"
“Luck says an American writer, is ever waiting for something to turn up: Labour with keen eye and strong will always turns up
something”
"Life is action not contemplation" Goethe
"Better wear out than rust out."
“If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress then we have to build our character which means highest sense of
honour, selfless service to thenation and sense of responsibility in a manner which will do honor to our nation.”
"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were tolling up in thenight." William Wordsworth Longfellow
"let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
Abraham Lincoln
"Beauty lies in the eyeof the beholder."
"If death is the end of life, why should all life labor be?" The lotus eaters
 Growing Old:
"The bright day is done, and we are for the night" Shakespeare
"for they say an old man is twice a child" Shakespeare
"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels."
“Where youth grows pale and spectre-thin,and dies;” John Keats, Ode to Nightingale
"When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
and nodding by thefire, take down this book,
And slowly dream, and read pf thesoft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep." W.B.Yeats
"Old age brings along with its ugliness the comfort that you will soon be out of it- which ought to be substantialrelief to such
discontented pendulums as we are." Emerson
“Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison house begin to close
Upon thegrowing boy.” William Wordsworth, Intimations of immortality
 One way of love:
"Love is a force that is at one more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature- the
most mysterious."

3.  Opportunity:
"Some peopleare born great, some peopleachieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."
"If you think you are beaten you are,
If you think dare not, you don't
If you like to win but think you cant,
It's almost a cinch you wont."
"the world's greatest lie is this that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what is happening to us, and our lives become
controlled by fate."
 The road not Taken:
"The road does not advice a man" African proverb
"And thelittle moments,
Humble though they be,
make the mighty ages,
Of eternity" Julia A. Carney (Little things)
"and i being poor have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
"Every one should observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose the way with all his strength."
“Theroad with theribbon of moonlight,
over the purplemoor”
""it is life as it is in ways, theshortest way is commonly thefoulest, and surely thefair way is not much about."
"Some aspirations always remain unfulfilled."
""there lies wisdom in listening to our hearts, learning to read omens strewn along life's path above all following our dreams.
Learn to recognize omens and follow them."
"human's are blessed with theability to make choices and choices determine fate. Water is destined to flow from top to bottom.
Birds, animals and many other creatures wake up early in the morning. Following theinstincts they return home before the
sunset. human's are empowered by the God to say 'no'. he lets them choose their own destiny."
 Rubaiyat of Umar Khayyam:
“Carrying out the master work is not the work of the few, but of every human being on the face of Earth. And that while the
master work will not reveal itself to us, everyone, beyond any shadow of doubt, can enter into the soul of theworld. The soul of
the world is nourished by people’s happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy and jealousy. All things are one.”
“Thedesires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews” w.h. Auden

4. "the signs of God are thetruths which our rational mind refuses to accept because of their simplicity."
“Success is a journey not a destination”
"With him are the keys of the unseen, the treasures that knoweth but he." (6:59)
“All cheerless, dark and deadly” Shakespeare
"ignorance of future ills is a more useful thing than knowledge." Cicero
"Awake! Arise! The hour is late!
Angels are knocking at the door!
They are in hasteand cannot wait;
And once departed come no more." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What then?
"the inhuman dearth of noble natures" John Keats
"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of one's aspirations and expectations." Jack Nicklaus
"fair in the eyes of men is thelove of things they covet: women and sons; heaped up hoards of gold and silver; horses branded;
and a cattle and well-tilled land. Such are thepossessions of this worldly life; but in nearness to God is the best of the goals."
(3:14)
 Those two boys:
"The hand of God is firm but infinitely generous"
"And in the world as in the school,
You know how fate may turn and shift;
The prizebe sometimes to thefool,
The race not always to theswift." William MakepieceThackeray, Sportsmanship
"We build our future, thought by thought,
For good or evil, yet know it not.
Yet so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate.
Chose then thy destiny and wait,
For love brings love and hate brings hate." Henry Van Dyke, Thoughts are things