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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To strive, to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To strive, to...

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Source: In My Favorite Quotations,...

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Aphra Behn: One hour of...

Aphra Behn: One hour of...

One hour of right-down love
Is worth an age of dully living on.


Source: In An...

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Colley Cibber: Stolen sweets are...

Colley Cibber: Stolen sweets are...

Stolen sweets are best.

Source: The Rival Fools, I.
-- Colley Cibber, (Nov 6...

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Alexander Pope: For observations which...

Alexander Pope: For observations which...

For observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th'observer's sake.


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Virgil: Believe one who...

Virgil: Believe one who...

Believe one who has tried it.

Source: In Reader's Digest.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15...

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Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet's pen all scorn I should...

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Stephane Mallarme: Dreams have as...

Stephane Mallarme: Dreams have as...

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis...

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Robert Bridges: The day begins...

Robert Bridges: The day begins...

The day begins to droop, -
Its course is done:
But nothing tells the place
Of the setting...

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Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,
And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner.
Then be off to your...

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George Moses Horton: Oh! that my...

George Moses Horton: Oh! that my...

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of...

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Delmore Schwartz: Time is the...

Delmore Schwartz: Time is the...

Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.


Source:...

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Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Source: Collected Poems.
--...

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Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone...

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Thornton Wilder: Ninety-nine per cent...

Thornton Wilder: Ninety-nine per cent...

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Like all dreamers,...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Like all dreamers,...

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Source: Les Mots.
--...

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J B Priestley: A loving wife...

J B Priestley: A loving wife...

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticising and trying to improve...

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May Sarton: The creative person,...

May Sarton: The creative person,...

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power...

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Sara Teasdale: Moon, worn thin...

Sara Teasdale: Moon, worn thin...

Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,
In the dawn clouds flying,
How good to go, light into light, and...

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