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Emily Dickinson: Some keep the...

Emily Dickinson: Some keep the...

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church --
I keep it, staying at Home --
With a Bobolink for a Chorister --
And...

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Robert Frost: I met a...

Robert Frost: I met a...

I met a Californian who would
Talk California --a state so blessed
He said, in climate, none had ever died...

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Robert Frost: One could do...

Robert Frost: One could do...

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Source: 'Birches'
-- Robert...

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Robert Frost: Just specimens is...

Robert Frost: Just specimens is...

Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,
One each of everything as in a show-case
Which naturally she doesn't...

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J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions...

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George Gordon Byron: But words are...

George Gordon Byron: But words are...

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes...

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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: 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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Alexander Pope: I was not...

Alexander Pope: I was not...

I was not born for courts and great affairs,
but I pay my debts, believe and say my...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So many worlds,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So many worlds,...

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And is there...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And is there...

And is there any moral shut
Within the bosom of the rose?


Source: The Day-Dream,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: As the husband...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: As the husband...

As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown.

Source: Locksley Hall,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Not the schoolboy...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Not the schoolboy...

Not the schoolboy heat,
The blind hysterics of the Celt.


Source: In Memoriam,...

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Oscar Wilde: When we are...

Oscar Wilde: When we are...

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

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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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William Wordsworth: The rapt one,...

William Wordsworth: The rapt one,...

The rapt one, of the godlike forehead,
The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:
And Lamb, the frolic and the...

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Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei...

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George Gordon Byron: My great comfort...

George Gordon Byron: My great comfort...

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all...

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Emily Dickinson: God gave a...

Emily Dickinson: God gave a...

God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

Source: In An Uncommon...

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