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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Our spontaneous action...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Our spontaneous action...

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: For believe me!...

Friedrich Nietzsche: For believe me!...

For believe me! --the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I heard the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I heard the...

I heard the water lapping on the crag,
And the long ripple washing in the reeds.


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Oscar Wilde: When I was...

Oscar Wilde: When I was...

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it...

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Oscar Wilde: Work is the...

Oscar Wilde: Work is the...

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: Don't tell me...

Oscar Wilde: Don't tell me...

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted...

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Oscar Wilde: Those who are...

Oscar Wilde: Those who are...

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's...

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Oscar Wilde: Do you really...

Oscar Wilde: Do you really...

Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible...

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Oscar Wilde: Who am I...

Oscar Wilde: Who am I...

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

Source: Refusing to make alterations to one...

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Oscar Wilde: In matters of...

Oscar Wilde: In matters of...

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Source:...

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Thornton Wilder: Every good thing...

Thornton Wilder: Every good thing...

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Source: Wriston's...

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Alexander Pope: A wit with...

Alexander Pope: A wit with...

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk iv. 90
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Alexander Pope: How here he...

Alexander Pope: How here he...

How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug,
And sucked all o'er, like an industrious...

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Alexander Pope: How happy is...

Alexander Pope: How happy is...

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.


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Alexander Pope: Men must be...

Alexander Pope: Men must be...

Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things...

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Alexander Pope: One science only...

Alexander Pope: One science only...

One science only will one genius fit;
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.


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Alexander Pope: One who is...

Alexander Pope: One who is...

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees,...

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Alexander Pope: Rise, honest Muse!...

Alexander Pope: Rise, honest Muse!...

Rise, honest Muse! and sing the Man of Ross.

Source: Moral Essays, Epistle III....

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Alexander Pope: The world forgetting,...

Alexander Pope: The world forgetting,...

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Source: Eloisa to Abelard.
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