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Andrew Marvell: Annihilating all that's...

Andrew Marvell: Annihilating all that's...

Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.


Source: The...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God's gifts put...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God's gifts put...

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Source: Sonnets From the Portuguese,...

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William Carlos Williams: I think all...

William Carlos Williams: I think all...

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

Source: In Newsweek, 7 Jan...

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Francesco Petrarch: How fortune brings...

Francesco Petrarch: How fortune brings...

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Source: In The International Thesaurus...

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John Donne: When one man...

John Donne: When one man...

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better...

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Edwin A Robinson: The power is...

Edwin A Robinson: The power is...

The power is yours, but not the sight;
You see not upon what you tread;
You have the ages for your guide,...

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Moslih Eddin Saadi: I fear God,...

Moslih Eddin Saadi: I fear God,...

I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.

Source: In...

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Jean Anouilh: All evil comes...

Jean Anouilh: All evil comes...

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

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Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Source: In NY Times, 2...

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John Lyly: It is a...

John Lyly: It is a...

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

Source: In Webster's...

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Harriet Monroe: . . ....

Harriet Monroe: . . ....

. . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'

Source: In Harriet Monroe, Famous...

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Thomas Tusser: The stone that...

Thomas Tusser: The stone that...

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;
For master and servant oft changing is...

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Sarah Josepha Hale: . . ....

Sarah Josepha Hale: . . ....

. . . rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising...

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Louise A Bogan: In a time...

Louise A Bogan: In a time...

In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in...

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Vita Sackville-West: I suppose the...

Vita Sackville-West: I suppose the...

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to...

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Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be...

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Francis Beaumont: Faith without works...

Francis Beaumont: Faith without works...

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never...

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Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

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Joe Orton: Reading isn't an...

Joe Orton: Reading isn't an...

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paper work down to a...

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Dwight D Eisenhower: Organizations cannot make...

Dwight D Eisenhower: Organizations cannot make...

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to...

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