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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: Ne'er saw I,...

William Wordsworth: Ne'er saw I,...

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem...

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William Wordsworth: O blithe new-comer!...

William Wordsworth: O blithe new-comer!...

O blithe new-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice.
O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird,
Or but a...

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Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Fame is a bee
It has a song --
It has a sting --
Ah, too, it has a wing.


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Emily Dickinson: For each ecstatic...

Emily Dickinson: For each ecstatic...

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the...

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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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Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words- /And never...

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Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Source: Letter, 187?; in...

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Oscar Wilde: Murder is always...

Oscar Wilde: Murder is always...

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after...

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Robert Frost: All thought is...

Robert Frost: All thought is...

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost...

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Robert Frost: Something there is...

Robert Frost: Something there is...

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
And wants it down.


Source: Mending...

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Alexander Pope: The bookful blockhead,...

Alexander Pope: The bookful blockhead,...

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.


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Alexander Pope: Beauties in vain...

Alexander Pope: Beauties in vain...

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the...

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Alexander Pope: Fix'd like a...

Alexander Pope: Fix'd like a...

Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.


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Alexander Pope: If, presume not...

Alexander Pope: If, presume not...

If, presume not to God to scan;
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle...

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Alexander Pope: When man's whole...

Alexander Pope: When man's whole...

When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.

Source: The Dunciad, IV
--...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To strive, to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To strive, to...

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Source: In My Favorite Quotations,...

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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: A day less...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A day less...

A day less or more
At sea or ashore,
We die - does it matter when?


Source:...

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