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Abraham Lincoln: An old Dutch...

Abraham Lincoln: An old Dutch...

An old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses in...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I do but...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I do but...

I do but sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing.


Source: In...

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William Wordsworth: The youth who...

William Wordsworth: The youth who...

The youth who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's priest,
And by the vision...

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William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets,...

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Rupert Brooke: Just now the...

Rupert Brooke: Just now the...

Just now the lilac is in bloom
All before my little room.


Source: The Old...

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Ogden Nash: I have an...

Ogden Nash: I have an...

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to...

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Alexander Pope: Fools rush in...

Alexander Pope: Fools rush in...

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Source: An Essay on Criticism ...

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Thornton Wilder: Even memory is...

Thornton Wilder: Even memory is...

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love,...

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Alexander Pope: Hope springs eternal...

Alexander Pope: Hope springs eternal...

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed.


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Alexander Pope: All seems infected...

Alexander Pope: All seems infected...

All seems infected that th'infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.


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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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Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The Ruin was within.


Source: c.1864,...

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Emily Dickinson: The dandelion's pallid...

Emily Dickinson: The dandelion's pallid...

The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite...

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J August Strindberg: Silence hides nothing....

J August Strindberg: Silence hides nothing....

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

Source: 'Ghost Sonata'
-- J August...

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Robert Frost: Some say the...

Robert Frost: Some say the...

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who...

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Robert Frost: So dawn goes...

Robert Frost: So dawn goes...

So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.


Source:
-- Robert Frost,...

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Aeschylus: When a man's...

Aeschylus: When a man's...

When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

Source: From Charades, an...

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William Wordsworth: O joy! that...

William Wordsworth: O joy! that...

O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live,
That nature yet remembers
What was so fugitive!
The...

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William Wordsworth: And now I...

William Wordsworth: And now I...

And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller...

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William Wordsworth: Milton! thou shouldst...

William Wordsworth: Milton! thou shouldst...

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee; she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar,...

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