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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Theirs not to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Theirs not to...

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.


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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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Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a...

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Harold Pinter: Good writing excites...

Harold Pinter: Good writing excites...

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Rupert Brooke: The women there...

Rupert Brooke: The women there...

The women there do all they ought;
The men observe the Rules of Thought.
They love the Good; they worship...

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Scott Alexander: Understand that most...

Scott Alexander: Understand that most...

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you...

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Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes...

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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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Edith Sitwell: Poetry is the...

Edith Sitwell: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Source: In Life, 4 Jan 1963.
-- Edith...

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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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