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William Wordsworth: Twas pastime to...

William Wordsworth: Twas pastime to...

Twas pastime to be bound
Within the sonnet's scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some souls (for such there needs...

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William Wordsworth: Me this unchartered...

William Wordsworth: Me this unchartered...

Me this unchartered freedom tires;
I feel the weight of chance-desires:
My hopes no more must change their...

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William Wordsworth: When from our...

William Wordsworth: When from our...

When from our better selves we have too long
Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop,
Sick of its business,...

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George Gordon Byron: For in itself...

George Gordon Byron: For in itself...

For in itself a thought,
A slumbering thought, is capable of years,
And curdles a long life into one...

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George Gordon Byron: When we think...

George Gordon Byron: When we think...

When we think we lead we are most led.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Robert Browning: It is best...

Robert Browning: It is best...

It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

A Deed knocks first at Thought
And then -- it knocks at Will --
That is the manufacturing...

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Emily Dickinson: Dying is a...

Emily Dickinson: Dying is a...

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Emily Dickinson: Not knowing when...

Emily Dickinson: Not knowing when...

Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.


Source: In Pearls of...

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Emily Dickinson: Nods from the...

Emily Dickinson: Nods from the...

Nods from the Gilded pointers --
Nods from the Seconds slim --
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life...

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Emily Dickinson: The Pedigree of...

Emily Dickinson: The Pedigree of...

The Pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee --
A Clover, any time, to him,
Is Aristocracy...

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Emily Dickinson: The Soul unto...

Emily Dickinson: The Soul unto...

The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend --
Or the most agonizing Spy --
An Enemy --could send...

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Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Source: Letter, 1878; in Letters of Emily...

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Emily Dickinson: Tis sweet to...

Emily Dickinson: Tis sweet to...

Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand
When we with Daisies lie --
That Commerce will continue --
And...

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Emily Dickinson: I took one...

Emily Dickinson: I took one...

I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they...

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Alexander Pope: No one should...

Alexander Pope: No one should...

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than...

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Alexander Pope: A brain of...

Alexander Pope: A brain of...

A brain of feathers and a heart of lead.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk ii. 44
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Alexander Pope: But Satan now...

Alexander Pope: But Satan now...

But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.


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Alexander Pope: Grant but as...

Alexander Pope: Grant but as...

Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss.

Source: Moral Essays, Epistle I. 18
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Alexander Pope: If to her...

Alexander Pope: If to her...

If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.


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