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Oscar Wilde: Experience is one...

Oscar Wilde: Experience is one...

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Scott Alexander: All good is...

Scott Alexander: All good is...

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from...

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Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave.


Source: The...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: Grace is given...

Arthur Hugh Clough: Grace is given...

Grace is given of God, but knowledge is born in the market.

Source: The Bothie of...

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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: O God, give...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: O God, give...

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Source: A Prayer.
-- Joseph...

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Alexander Smith: I go into...

Alexander Smith: I go into...

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Time and tide...

Geoffrey Chaucer: Time and tide...

Time and tide wait for no man.

Source: In The American Library of Quotations,
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Edmund Waller: Poets lose half...

Edmund Waller: Poets lose half...

Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly...

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Luigi Pirandello: Nature uses human...

Luigi Pirandello: Nature uses human...

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

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Ethel Watts Mumford: A man of...

Ethel Watts Mumford: A man of...

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Source: In Oxford...

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John Keats: There is an...

John Keats: There is an...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is...

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Thomas Moore: No man, however...

Thomas Moore: No man, however...

No man, however great, is known to everybody and no man, however solitary, is known to...

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Francis Quarles: If thy words...

Francis Quarles: If thy words...

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may...

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Moslih Eddin Saadi: He who learns,...

Moslih Eddin Saadi: He who learns,...

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend...

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Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Source: The...

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Anne Sexton: The beautiful feeling...

Anne Sexton: The beautiful feeling...

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a...

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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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Janet Erskine Stuart: You must grow...

Janet Erskine Stuart: You must grow...

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Joyce Kilmer: I think that...

Joyce Kilmer: I think that...

I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can...

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John Osborne: The whole point...

John Osborne: The whole point...

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. . . . People...

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