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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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Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to...

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John Keats: Praise or blame...

John Keats: Praise or blame...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic...

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Walt Whitman: Do I contradict...

Walt Whitman: Do I contradict...

Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain...

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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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William Carlos Williams: When they ask...

William Carlos Williams: When they ask...

When they ask me . . . how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem. I reply that...

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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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Edwin A Robinson: I shall have...

Edwin A Robinson: I shall have...

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

Source: John Brown.
-- Edwin A...

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Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

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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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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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Anne Sexton: Even without wars,...

Anne Sexton: Even without wars,...

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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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: 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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Douglas Jerrold: Earth is here...

Douglas Jerrold: Earth is here...

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

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Douglas Jerrold: Dogmatism is puppyism...

Douglas Jerrold: Dogmatism is puppyism...

Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.

Source: The Wit and Opinions of...

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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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