September 3
2003
- There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. ~ Jim Hightower
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. ~ J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye
- selected by Kalki
2005
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~ Frederick Douglass
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. ~ Oliver Cromwell
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2007
- A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett (born 3 September 1849)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2008
- The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling.
It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law. ~ Louis Sullivan (born 3 September 1856)- proposed by Ningauble
2010
Suggestions
Once you learn to read you will be forever free. ~ Frederick Douglass, who boarded a train that day on 1838 on his way to freedom.- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:22, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
- 2 ~ Kalki 22:54, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 13:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 21:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2.5 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ~ Frederick Douglass
- 0 This has now already been used on 20 February 2007 Kalki
* 3 Kalki 01:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC) - 3 InvisibleSun 02:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 21:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
- 3 InvisibleSun 02:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:51, 2 September 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 21:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2.5 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
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It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone. ~ Oliver Cromwell (died 3 September 1658)
- 3 Kalki 00:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 15:29, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:52, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
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In the life of each of us ... there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
- 3 Kalki 23:58, 2 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 04:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
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"Dear robin," said this sad young flower,
"Perhaps you'd not mind trying
To find a nice white frill for me,
Some day when you are flying?"
"You silly thing!" the robin said;
"I think you must be crazy!
I'd rather be my honest self
Than any made-up daisy.
"You're nicer in your own bright gown,
The little children love you;
Be the best buttercup you can,
And think no flower above you.
"Though swallows leave me out of sight,
We'd better keep our places;
Perhaps the world would all go wrong
With one too many daisies.
"Look bravely up into the sky,
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing."
~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
- 3 Kalki 20:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 04:14, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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The warm sun kissed the earth
To consecrate thy birth,
And from his close embrace
Thy radiant face
Sprang into sight,
A blossoming delight.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
- 3 Kalki 20:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 04:14, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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Your patience may have long to wait,
Whether in little things or great,
But all good luck, you soon will learn,
Must come to those who nobly earn.
Who hunts the hay-field over
Will find the four-leaved clover.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
- 3 Kalki 20:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 Zarbon 04:14, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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