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William Cowper: Absence of occupation...

William Cowper: Absence of occupation...

Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.


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Robert Bly: I have wandered...

Robert Bly: I have wandered...

I have wandered in a face, for hours . . .

Source: In The Concise Columbia...

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Robert Bly: I have risen...

Robert Bly: I have risen...

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding...

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John Clare: Still, I have...

John Clare: Still, I have...

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Source:...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: It is brave...

Gwendolyn Brooks: It is brave...

It is brave to be involved
To be not fearful to be unresolved.


Source: do not...

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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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Thomas Campbell: Tis distance lends...

Thomas Campbell: Tis distance lends...

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.


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Thomas Campbell: The world was...

Thomas Campbell: The world was...

The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd--till woman...

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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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Scott Alexander: The basic rule...

Scott Alexander: The basic rule...

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Source: In The...

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Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Though language forms the preacher,
'Tis good works make the man.


Source: Good...

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Hesiod: Potter is jealous...

Hesiod: Potter is jealous...

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet...

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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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Robert Burns: Dare to be...

Robert Burns: Dare to be...

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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John Osborne: Don't clap too...

John Osborne: Don't clap too...

Don't clap too hard -- it's a very old building.

Source: The Entertainer
-- John...

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John Osborne: But I have...

John Osborne: But I have...

But I have a go, lady, don't I? Pave a go. I do.

Source: The Entertainer (1957) no....

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Wilson Mizner: I respect faith,...

Wilson Mizner: I respect faith,...

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Wilson Mizner: I can usually...

Wilson Mizner: I can usually...

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Faultily faultless, icily...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Faultily faultless, icily...

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

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