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Henry David Thoreau: Through want of...

Henry David Thoreau: Through want of...

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like...

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William Shakespeare: A little fire...

William Shakespeare: A little fire...

A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which being suffered, rivers cannot quench.


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Oscar Wilde: It is better...

Oscar Wilde: It is better...

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Oscar Wilde: One should not...

Oscar Wilde: One should not...

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually...

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Oscar Wilde: For he who...

Oscar Wilde: For he who...

For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.

Source: The...

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Oscar Wilde: Wickedness is a...

Oscar Wilde: Wickedness is a...

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of...

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Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is Nature's...

Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is Nature's...

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his...

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Oscar Wilde: Sympathy with joy...

Oscar Wilde: Sympathy with joy...

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount...

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Oscar Wilde: Art, like Nature,...

Oscar Wilde: Art, like Nature,...

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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Oscar Wilde: It is because...

Oscar Wilde: It is because...

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its...

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Oscar Wilde: The man who...

Oscar Wilde: The man who...

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Oscar Wilde: Pray don't talk...

Oscar Wilde: Pray don't talk...

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel...

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Oscar Wilde: He knew the...

Oscar Wilde: He knew the...

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Source: In The...

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Oscar Wilde: It is through...

Oscar Wilde: It is through...

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we realize our perfection.

Source: In...

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Bernard Baruch: The greatest blessing...

Bernard Baruch: The greatest blessing...

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to...

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Oscar Wilde: To have friends,...

Oscar Wilde: To have friends,...

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Go not, happy...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Go not, happy...

Go not, happy day,
From the shining fields,
Go not, happy day,
Till the maiden...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Home they brought...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Home they brought...

Home they brought her warrior dead.
She nor swoon'd, nor utter'd cry:
All her maidens, watching said,
'She...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I will take...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I will take...

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my savage race.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lead and I...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lead and I...

Lead and I follow.

Source: Idylls of the King, `Gareth and Lynette', 726
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