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Richard Armour: Beauty is only...

Richard Armour: Beauty is only...

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

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Countee Cullen: There is no...

Countee Cullen: There is no...

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the breaks. In order...

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Allen Ginsberg: Nobody saves America...

Allen Ginsberg: Nobody saves America...

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, Jiggling yr knees blankeyed in the rain, When it snows in yr nose you catch...

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Denise Levertov: Images <br>split the...

Denise Levertov: Images
split the...

Images
split the truth
in fractions.


Source: A Sequence, in The Jacob's...

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Edith Sitwell: I have often...

Edith Sitwell: I have often...

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. . . . But I am too busy thinking about...

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Robert Burns: The best laid...

Robert Burns: The best laid...

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promis'd...

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Robert Burns: But the cheerful...

Robert Burns: But the cheerful...

But the cheerful Spring came kindly on
And show'rs began to fall:
John Barleycorn got up again
And sore...

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Alexander Pope: One simile, that...

Alexander Pope: One simile, that...

One simile, that solitary shines
In a dry desert of a thousand lines.


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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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John Webster: Man may his...

John Webster: Man may his...

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. . . . 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

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Aeschylus: When a man's...

Aeschylus: When a man's...

When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

Source: From Charades, an...

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Aeschylus: Call no man...

Aeschylus: Call no man...

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

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Oscar Wilde: A pessimist is...

Oscar Wilde: A pessimist is...

A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both.

Source:...

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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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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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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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