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Alexander Pope: Grant but as...

Alexander Pope: Grant but as...

Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss.

Source: Moral Essays, Epistle I. 18
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Alexander Pope: He saw, he...

Alexander Pope: He saw, he...

He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd.
Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way,
By force to ravish, or by...

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Alexander Pope: I am His...

Alexander Pope: I am His...

I am His Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?


Source: On...

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Alexander Pope: Never elated when...

Alexander Pope: Never elated when...

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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Alexander Pope: Not chaos-like, together...

Alexander Pope: Not chaos-like, together...

Not chaos-like, together crushed and bruised,
But, as the world harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Knowledge comes, but...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Knowledge comes, but...

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and bears a laden breast
Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A land of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A land of...

A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke,
Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A still small...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A still small...

A still small voice spake unto me,
'Thou art so full of misery,
Were it not better not to...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But ah for...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But ah for...

But ah for a man to arise in me,
That the man I am may cease to be!


Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For men may...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For men may...

For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.


Source: The Brook,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Wearing all that...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Wearing all that...

Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.


Source: In Memoriam,...

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William Wordsworth: You must love...

William Wordsworth: You must love...

You must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love.


Source: A Poet's...

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William Wordsworth: This city now...

William Wordsworth: This city now...

This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres...

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George Bernard Shaw: The man who...

George Bernard Shaw: The man who...

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all...

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George Bernard Shaw: People exaggerate the...

George Bernard Shaw: People exaggerate the...

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have...

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Walter Bagehot: A severe though...

Walter Bagehot: A severe though...

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go...

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William Shakespeare: A man whose...

William Shakespeare: A man whose...

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the...

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William Shakespeare: Some rise by...

William Shakespeare: Some rise by...

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Source: Measure for Measure, II. i....

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William Shakespeare: I am sworn...

William Shakespeare: I am sworn...

I am sworn brother, sweet,
To grim Necessity, and he and I
Will keep a league till...

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William Shakespeare: Time's thievish progress...

William Shakespeare: Time's thievish progress...

Time's thievish progress to eternity.

Source: Sonnet 77.
-- William Shakespeare,...

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