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Daniel Webster: The world is...

Daniel Webster: The world is...

The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know...

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Bliss Carman: I often wish...

Bliss Carman: I often wish...

I often wish . . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely...

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Grover Cleveland: No man has...

Grover Cleveland: No man has...

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Source: In...

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Warren Harding: I don't know...

Warren Harding: I don't know...

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damned good word with which to carry an...

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John Adams: Courage and perseverance...

John Adams: Courage and perseverance...

Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into...

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Richard Nixon: You've got to...

Richard Nixon: You've got to...

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Source:...

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Andrew Jackson: The wisdom of...

Andrew Jackson: The wisdom of...

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect...

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Andrew Jackson: Heaven will be...

Andrew Jackson: Heaven will be...

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Source: In The...

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Abraham Lincoln: When I do...

Abraham Lincoln: When I do...

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.

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Robert Frost: A diplomat is...

Robert Frost: A diplomat is...

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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John Ashbery: I don't want...

John Ashbery: I don't want...

I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of...

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Novalis: The artist belongs...

Novalis: The artist belongs...

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Source: In The...

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Vachel Lindsay: Authors and uncaptured...

Vachel Lindsay: Authors and uncaptured...

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

Source: In...

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Paul Verlaine: Tears fall in...

Paul Verlaine: Tears fall in...

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Source: [Il pleure dans mon c ur/...

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Edmund Waller: Poets that lasting...

Edmund Waller: Poets that lasting...

Poets that lasting marble seek
Must carve in Latin or in Greek.


Source: Of...

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Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Source: Collected Poems.
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Luigi Pirandello: We ride through...

Luigi Pirandello: We ride through...

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

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Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in...

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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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Fulke Greville: I hardly know...

Fulke Greville: I hardly know...

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

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