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J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions...

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Robert Bolt: Morality's not practical....

Robert Bolt: Morality's not practical....

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

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Robert Frost: The brain is...

Robert Frost: The brain is...

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to...

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Ovid: Everything comes gradually...

Ovid: Everything comes gradually...

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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William Carlos Williams: By listening to...

William Carlos Williams: By listening to...

By listening to the language of his locality the poet learns his craft. It is his function to lift, by the use of his...

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Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it...

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Fulke Greville: Most men have...

Fulke Greville: Most men have...

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Source: In...

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Robert Herrick: It is the...

Robert Herrick: It is the...

It is the will that makes the action good or ill.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at...

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Jean de LaFontaine: To win a...

Jean de LaFontaine: To win a...

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.

Source:...

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Sophocles: A short saying...

Sophocles: A short saying...

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Edmund Spenser: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Edmund Spenser: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Sweete Themmes! runne softly, till I end my Song.

Source: Prothalamion.
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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.

Source:...

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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 Smith: We are never...

Alexander Smith: We are never...

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Source: Dreamthorp, ...

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