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By elizabethlarsen121 SILVER
Iowa City, Iowa

All hope is gone, the sun is nowhere near The weightless snowflakes, down they go and go When will the death of nature disappear And the slight signs of spring begin to show? A...
elizabethlarsen121 SILVER, Iowa City, Iowa
7 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.


Sophia Mauro SILVER, Kansas City, Missouri
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
Poetry
By EmilyMichelle PLATINUM
Manassas, Virginia
EmilyMichelle PLATINUM, Manassas, Virginia
33 articles 4 photos 90 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Our truest responsibility to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find the truth.&quot;<br /> - Madeleine L&#039;Engle

EmilyMichelle PLATINUM, Manassas, Virginia
33 articles 4 photos 90 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Our truest responsibility to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find the truth.&quot;<br /> - Madeleine L&#039;Engle

Poetry
By Nick-M SILVER
Oak Park, Illinois
Nick-M SILVER, Oak Park, Illinois
9 articles 0 photos 49 comments

Favorite Quote:
-FLTDO-

striving_for_happiness SILVER, Pekin, North Dakota
5 articles 0 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.<br /> -Dr. Samuel Johnson

Poetry
By DeFlip BRONZE
Caledonia, Mississippi
DeFlip BRONZE, Caledonia, Mississippi
1 article 0 photos 1 comment
Poetry
By Anonymous
Poetry
By bobhot6 BRONZE
Irvington, New Jersey
bobhot6 BRONZE, Irvington, New Jersey
3 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
To wish to be someone else is to waste the person you are.

Poetry
By Anonymous