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Alexander Pope: Sure of their...

Alexander Pope: Sure of their...

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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Alexander Pope: To make mankind...

Alexander Pope: To make mankind...

To make mankind in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they...

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Alexander Pope: Ten censure wrong,...

Alexander Pope: Ten censure wrong,...

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alexander Pope: Where'er you walk,...

Alexander Pope: Where'er you walk,...

Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you...

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Alexander Pope: Woman's at best...

Alexander Pope: Woman's at best...

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Source: Moral Essays, II
-- Alexander...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And so the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And so the...

And so the Word had breath, and wrought
With human hands the creed of creeds
In loveliness of perfect...

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William Wordsworth: Think you, 'mid...

William Wordsworth: Think you, 'mid...

Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum
Of things forever speaking.
That nothing of itself will come,
But we must...

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William Wordsworth: A perfect woman,...

William Wordsworth: A perfect woman,...

A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.


Source: She...

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William Wordsworth: She was a...

William Wordsworth: She was a...

She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's...

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William Wordsworth: Hence in a...

William Wordsworth: Hence in a...

Hence in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which...

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William Wordsworth: Spirits overwrought<br>Were making...

William Wordsworth: Spirits overwrought
Were making...

Spirits overwrought
Were making night do penance for a day
Spent in a round of strenuous...

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Oscar Wilde: It is absurd...

Oscar Wilde: It is absurd...

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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William Shakespeare: They'll take suggestion...

William Shakespeare: They'll take suggestion...

They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.

Source: The Tempest, II. i....

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William Shakespeare: Our poesy is...

William Shakespeare: Our poesy is...

Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes
From whence 'tis nourished.


Source: Timon of...

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George Bernard Shaw: The only way...

George Bernard Shaw: The only way...

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good...

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George Bernard Shaw: We are a...

George Bernard Shaw: We are a...

We are a nation of governesses.

Source: New Statesman (London, 12 April...

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George Bernard Shaw: Use your health...

George Bernard Shaw: Use your health...

Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die, and do...

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George Bernard Shaw: We have no...

George Bernard Shaw: We have no...

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing...

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George Bernard Shaw: You must not...

George Bernard Shaw: You must not...

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest...

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George Bernard Shaw: Why, except as...

George Bernard Shaw: Why, except as...

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in,...

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