Quotes for poems from first year textbooks (class/ grade 11)

 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

“There is nothing in Earth intended for innocent people so horrible as School” George Bernard Shaw

 What's life?

"Hope springs eternal in the human 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 the shadow of the world upon the background 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 hope hopes 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 the antithesis of evil."

 A Psalm of Life:

"For the mental 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 the dreams and forget to live."

"When you want something all the world conspires in helping you to achieve it"

"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 the nation 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 the night." 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 eye of 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 the fire, take down this book,
And slowly dream, and read pf the soft 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 substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are." Emerson

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

Shades of the prison house begin to close
Upon the growing 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."

 Opportunity:

"Some people are born great, some people achieve 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 the little 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."

“The road with the ribbon of moonlight,

over the purple moor”

""it is life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fair 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 the ability 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 the instincts 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
the world. The soul of the world is nourished by people’s happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy and
jealousy. All things are one.”

“The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews” w.h. Auden

"the signs of God are the truths 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 haste and 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 the love 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 the possessions 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 prize be sometimes to the fool,
The race not always to the swift." William Makepiece Thackeray, 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