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Jean de la Fontaine: Patience and passage...

Jean de la Fontaine: Patience and passage...

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Source: Fables, II,...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Source: With Words, The Motorcycle Betrayal...

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Diane Wakoski: I write in...

Diane Wakoski: I write in...

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it...

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Hesiod: Badness you can...

Hesiod: Badness you can...

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: No-wher so bisy...

Geoffrey Chaucer: No-wher so bisy...

No-wher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.


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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Everything I do,...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Everything I do,...

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage,...

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Richard Lovelace: Tell me not,...

Richard Lovelace: Tell me not,...

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind,
To war and arms...

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Edith Sitwell: Why not be...

Edith Sitwell: Why not be...

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a...

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Thomas Campbell: To bear is...

Thomas Campbell: To bear is...

To bear is to conquer our fate.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Rupert Brooke: If I should...

Rupert Brooke: If I should...

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever...

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Rupert Brooke: Oh! Death will...

Rupert Brooke: Oh! Death will...

Oh! Death will find me long before I tire
Of watching you; and swing me suddenly
Into the shade and loneliness...

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Louis Aragon: Light is meaningful...

Louis Aragon: Light is meaningful...

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which...

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Ogden Nash: Marriage is an...

Ogden Nash: Marriage is an...

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the...

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William Wordsworth: A youth to...

William Wordsworth: A youth to...

A youth to whom was given
So much of earth - so much of heaven,
And such impetuous...

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Thomas Tusser: Sweet April showers<br>Do...

Thomas Tusser: Sweet April showers
Do...

Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers.


Source: Five Hundred Points of Good...

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Thomas Tusser: Fear God, and...

Thomas Tusser: Fear God, and...

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws,
And keep thyself out of the magistrate's...

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Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of...

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Nicolas Chamfort: The success of...

Nicolas Chamfort: The success of...

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the...

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Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did...

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Aeschylus: Old men are...

Aeschylus: Old men are...

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

Source: Agamemnon.
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