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Alexander Pope: For fools admire,...

Alexander Pope: For fools admire,...

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Source: An Essay on Criticism,...

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Alexander Pope: Eternal smiles his...

Alexander Pope: Eternal smiles his...

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.


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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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control;...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control;...

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Drink to lofty...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Drink to lofty...

Drink to lofty hopes that cool -
Visions of a perfect State.


Source: The Village...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis only noble...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis only noble...

Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ah God! the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ah God! the...

Ah God! the petty fools of rhyme
That shriek and sweat in pigmy wars.


Source:...

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William Wordsworth: For oft, when...

William Wordsworth: For oft, when...

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the...

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William Wordsworth: O'er rough and...

William Wordsworth: O'er rough and...

O'er rough and smooth she trips along,
And never looks behind;
And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the...

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William Wordsworth: There was a...

William Wordsworth: There was a...

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled...

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George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand...

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Robert Browning: Who hears music,...

Robert Browning: Who hears music,...

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Source: From Journey...

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Emily Dickinson: I . ....

Emily Dickinson: I . ....

I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass...

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Emily Dickinson: If I feel...

Emily Dickinson: If I feel...

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Is there any other...

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Emily Dickinson: Tell all the...

Emily Dickinson: Tell all the...

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies.


Source: 1868;...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But ah for...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But ah for...

But ah for a man to arise in me,
That the man I am may cease to be!


Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man is the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man is the...

Man is the hunter; woman is his game:
The sleek and shining creatures of the chase,
We hunt them for the beauty...

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