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Do not become...

Do not become...

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own...

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You have always...

You have always...

You have always given me more than I gave to you. . . . You were the wings on which I...

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Thomas Otway: Children blessings seem,...

Thomas Otway: Children blessings seem,...

Children blessings seem, but torments are;
When young, our folly, and when old our...

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Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Icebergs behoove the soul (Both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair,...

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Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Masefield's sonnets? Ah yes. Very nice. Pure Shakespeare. Masefield's 'Reynard the Fox'? Very nice, too. Pure Chaucer....

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Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Still on Israel's head forlorn,
Every nation heaps its scorn.


Source: 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: The gretteste clerkes...

Geoffrey Chaucer: The gretteste clerkes...

The gretteste clerkes been noght the wysest men.

Source: Canterbury Tales, 'The...

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Thornton Wilder: Literature is the...

Thornton Wilder: Literature is the...

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Source: In Time, 12 Jan 53
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J August Strindberg: Happiness consumes itself...

J August Strindberg: Happiness consumes itself...

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end...

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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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Walt Whitman: There is that...

Walt Whitman: There is that...

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power...

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William Wordsworth: In that sweet...

William Wordsworth: In that sweet...

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

Source:...

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George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. . . I do not...

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Ludovico Ariosto: Nature made him...

Ludovico Ariosto: Nature made him...

Nature made him -- then broke the mold.

Source: Orlando Furioso, 1532.
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Oscar Wilde: One should always...

Oscar Wilde: One should always...

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Source: In Webster's...

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Nicolas Boileau: The wisest man...

Nicolas Boileau: The wisest man...

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Source: In Correct...

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Charlotte Bronte: Men judge us...

Charlotte Bronte: Men judge us...

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

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Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state...

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Wendy Wasserstein: Sometimes I want...

Wendy Wasserstein: Sometimes I want...

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I...

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