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Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And...

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Emily Dickinson: That it will...

Emily Dickinson: That it will...

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.


Source: poem no....

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Ogden Nash: In the world...

Ogden Nash: In the world...

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for...

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Ogden Nash: Remorse is a...

Ogden Nash: Remorse is a...

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Source: A Clean Conscience Never...

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Ogden Nash: The most exciting...

Ogden Nash: The most exciting...

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

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Ogden Nash: Basketball, a game...

Ogden Nash: Basketball, a game...

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to...

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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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Thornton Wilder: Literature is the...

Thornton Wilder: Literature is the...

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Source: In Time, 12 Jan 53
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Thornton Wilder: One of the...

Thornton Wilder: One of the...

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or...

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Alexander Pope: All seems infected...

Alexander Pope: All seems infected...

All seems infected that th'infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.


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Alexander Pope: As some to...

Alexander Pope: As some to...

As some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.


Source: An...

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Alexander Pope: For virtue's self...

Alexander Pope: For virtue's self...

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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Alexander Pope: If, presume not...

Alexander Pope: If, presume not...

If, presume not to God to scan;
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle...

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Alexander Pope: Fame can never...

Alexander Pope: Fame can never...

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

Source: letter to...

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Alexander Pope: Never elated when...

Alexander Pope: Never elated when...

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: What rights are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: What rights are...

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Robert Frost: I'm not confused....

Robert Frost: I'm not confused....

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Source: The Wall Street Journal,...

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Robert Frost: Modern poets talk...

Robert Frost: Modern poets talk...

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by...

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