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William Shakespeare: If to do...

William Shakespeare: If to do...

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes'...

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William Shakespeare: O God! methinks...

William Shakespeare: O God! methinks...

O God! methinks it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do...

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William Shakespeare: Time's glory is...

William Shakespeare: Time's glory is...

Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.


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Oscar Wilde: He rides in...

Oscar Wilde: He rides in...

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least...

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Oscar Wilde: He thinks like...

Oscar Wilde: He thinks like...

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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Oscar Wilde: Tread lightly, she...

Oscar Wilde: Tread lightly, she...

Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies...

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Oscar Wilde: The Governor was...

Oscar Wilde: The Governor was...

The Governor was strong upon
The Regulations Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific...

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Oscar Wilde: It is very...

Oscar Wilde: It is very...

It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false...

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Alexander Pope: Poetic Justice, with...

Alexander Pope: Poetic Justice, with...

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,
Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,
And solid pudding...

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Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.


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Alexander Pope: The ruling passion,...

Alexander Pope: The ruling passion,...

The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.


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Alexander Pope: The spider's touch,...

Alexander Pope: The spider's touch,...

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Behold a man...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Behold a man...

Behold a man raised up by Christ.

Source: In Memoriam, 31 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But I was...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But I was...

But I was born to other things.

Source: In Memoriam, 120 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made Himself...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made Himself...

God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.

Source: The Village of Sin, 3; also last...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Hold thou the good: define it well:
For fear divine philosophy
Should push beyond her mark and be
Procuress...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I have fought...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I have fought...

I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true;
I have only done my duty as a man is bound to...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man dreams of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man dreams of...

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or when the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or when the...

Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
'I am half sick of shadows,' said
The Lady...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Someone had blundered:<br>Theirs...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Someone had blundered:
Theirs...

Someone had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and...

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