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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sweet is true...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sweet is true...

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thro' scudding drifts...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thro' scudding drifts...

Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea.


Source: Ulysses,...

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Alexander Pope: Some daemon stole...

Alexander Pope: Some daemon stole...

Some daemon stole my pen (forgive th' offence)
And once betrayed me into common sense.
Else all my prose and...

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Alexander Pope: Ambition first sprung...

Alexander Pope: Ambition first sprung...

Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes;
The glorious fault of angels and of...

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Alexander Pope: Is not absence...

Alexander Pope: Is not absence...

Is not absence death to those who love?

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

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Alexander Pope: Men dream of...

Alexander Pope: Men dream of...

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alexander Pope: Let me tell...

Alexander Pope: Let me tell...

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction:...

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Alexander Pope: Now night descending,...

Alexander Pope: Now night descending,...

Now night descending, the proud scene was o'er,
But lived in Settle's numbers one day...

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Alexander Pope: Religion blushing veils...

Alexander Pope: Religion blushing veils...

Religion blushing veils her sacred fires,
And unawares morality expires.
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to...

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Alexander Pope: The many-headed monster...

Alexander Pope: The many-headed monster...

The many-headed monster of the pit.

Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Better not be...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Better not be...

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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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: A truth looks...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A truth looks...

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A pasty costly...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A pasty costly...

A pasty costly made,
Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay,
Like fossils of the rock, with golden...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Be near me...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Be near me...

Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is...

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Oscar Wilde: Disobedience, in the...

Oscar Wilde: Disobedience, in the...

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that...

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Oscar Wilde: The State is...

Oscar Wilde: The State is...

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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Oscar Wilde: Each of the...

Oscar Wilde: Each of the...

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the...

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Oscar Wilde: The old-fashioned respect...

Oscar Wilde: The old-fashioned respect...

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Source: Gwendolen, in...

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Oscar Wilde: All bad poetry...

Oscar Wilde: All bad poetry...

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be...

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