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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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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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Sean O'Casey: The world's a...

Sean O'Casey: The world's a...

The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Source:
-- Sean...

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Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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Oscar Wilde: The English country...

Oscar Wilde: The English country...

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the...

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Oscar Wilde: The best one...

Oscar Wilde: The best one...

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than...

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Scott Alexander: The best way...

Scott Alexander: The best way...

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

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Basil Bunting: I hate Science....

Basil Bunting: I hate Science....

I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's...

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Philip James Bailey: Simplicity is natures...

Philip James Bailey: Simplicity is natures...

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is...

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Robert Bridges: Beauty sat with...

Robert Bridges: Beauty sat with...

Beauty sat with me all the summer day,
Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye;
Nor mark'd I till we parted, how,...

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Wilfred Owen: Red lips are...

Wilfred Owen: Red lips are...

Red lips are not so red
As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.


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William Watson: And must I...

William Watson: And must I...

And must I wholly banish hence
These red and golden juices,
And pay my vows to Abstinence,
That pallidest of...

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Theodore Roethke: Time marks us...

Theodore Roethke: Time marks us...

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Source: Straw for the Fire
-- Theodore...

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Rupert Brooke: Cities, like cats,...

Rupert Brooke: Cities, like cats,...

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Source: Letters from America,...

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