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Edmund Waller: The fear of...

Edmund Waller: The fear of...

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
Savours too much of private interest.


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Robert Burns: Critics! Those cut-throat...

Robert Burns: Critics! Those cut-throat...

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: At painful times,...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: At painful times,...

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent...

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William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets,...

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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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh yet we...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh yet we...

Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill!


Source: In...

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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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Peter Shaffer: Rehearsing a play...

Peter Shaffer: Rehearsing a play...

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

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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 Keats: Though man is...

John Keats: Though man is...

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is...

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Robert Browning: Stung by the...

Robert Browning: Stung by the...

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Source: A Death in the Desert.
--...

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