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Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the...

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Alexander Smith: If you wish...

Alexander Smith: If you wish...

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Source: Dreamthorp, ...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Men love ....

Geoffrey Chaucer: Men love ....

Men love . . . newfangledness.

Source: The Squire's Tale,'' in 'The Canterbury...

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Edmund Waller: Though with judgment...

Edmund Waller: Though with judgment...

Though with judgment we on things reflect,
Our will determines, not our intellect.


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Henry John Newbolt: He clapped the...

Henry John Newbolt: He clapped the...

He clapped the glass to his sightless eye,
And 'I'm damned if I see it', he said.


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Aphra Behn: One hour of...

Aphra Behn: One hour of...

One hour of right-down love
Is worth an age of dully living on.


Source: In An...

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Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Source: Narcissa,...

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Neil Simon: Don't listen to...

Neil Simon: Don't listen to...

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it...

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Robert Browning: Genius has somewhat...

Robert Browning: Genius has somewhat...

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.

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Ovid: Luck affects everything;...

Ovid: Luck affects everything;...

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poetry lifts the...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poetry lifts the...

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not...

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Virgil: Fortune sides with...

Virgil: Fortune sides with...

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Source: Aeneid.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15 70BC-19BC),...

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Walt Whitman: The art of...

Walt Whitman: The art of...

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is...

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John Clare: I long for...

John Clare: I long for...

I long for scenes where man has never trod;
. . . There to abide with my Creator, God.


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John Clare: If life had...

John Clare: If life had...

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

Source: Letter to a...

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Robert Herrick: If well thou...

Robert Herrick: If well thou...

If well thou hast begun, go on; It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

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Jean de LaFontaine: In everything one...

Jean de LaFontaine: In everything one...

In everything one must consider the end.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel...

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Joaquin Miller: The biggest dog...

Joaquin Miller: The biggest dog...

The biggest dog has been a pup.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Robert Burns: O wad some...

Robert Burns: O wad some...

O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as others see us.


Source: In...

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Thomas Campbell: Truth ever lovely...

Thomas Campbell: Truth ever lovely...

Truth ever lovely - since the world began,
The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.


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