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Oscar Wilde: The great events...

Oscar Wilde: The great events...

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become...

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Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no sin except stupidity.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 2...

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Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One...

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Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a...

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Thornton Wilder: I was an...

Thornton Wilder: I was an...

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

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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: Did some more...

Alexander Pope: Did some more...

Did some more sober critic come abroad?
If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.


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Alexander Pope: At ev'ry word...

Alexander Pope: At ev'ry word...

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Source: The Rape of the Lock, cto. 3.
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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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: All the charm...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: All the charm...

All the charm of all the Muses
often flowering in a lonely word.


Source: In...

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William Wordsworth: Nor less I...

William Wordsworth: Nor less I...

Nor less I deem that there are powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of...

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William Wordsworth: More pellucid streams,<br>An...

William Wordsworth: More pellucid streams,
An...

More pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal...

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William Wordsworth: When a damp<br>Fell...

William Wordsworth: When a damp
Fell...

When a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet; whence he...

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Joseph Brodsky: Bad literature ....

Joseph Brodsky: Bad literature ....

Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.

Source: In NY Times, 1 Oct 72
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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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Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Assent--and you are sane--,
Demur--you're straightway dangerous--,
And handled with a...

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Emily Dickinson: If I shouldn't...

Emily Dickinson: If I shouldn't...

If I shouldn't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat
A memorial...

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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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O Sorrow, wilt...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O Sorrow, wilt...

O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me
No casual mistress, but a wife.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tears, idle tears,/I...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tears, idle tears,/I...

Tears, idle tears,/I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair,
Rise in the heart and...

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