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Thomas Tusser: Some respite to...

Thomas Tusser: Some respite to...

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,
But housewives' affairs have never an...

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Thomas Tusser: In doing of...

Thomas Tusser: In doing of...

In doing of either, let wit bear a stroke,
For buying or selling of pig in a poke.


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Sarah Josepha Hale: She was a...

Sarah Josepha Hale: She was a...

She was a weak woman - too highly elated in prosperity, too easily depressed by adversity - not considering that both...

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Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Women have no wilderness in them
They are provident instead
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To...

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Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time...

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Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Look twice before you leap.

Source: Shirley, ch. 9, 1849.
-- Charlotte Bronte,...

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Ugo Betti: All of us...

Ugo Betti: All of us...

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in...

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Terence Rattigan: To face life...

Terence Rattigan: To face life...

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

Source: The Deep Blue...

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Terence Rattigan: A novelist may...

Terence Rattigan: A novelist may...

A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a...

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Joyce Kilmer: I think that...

Joyce Kilmer: I think that...

I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can...

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Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the...

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Philip James Bailey: We live in...

Philip James Bailey: We live in...

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives...

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Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave.


Source: The...

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Ogden Nash: I would live...

Ogden Nash: I would live...

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance/Were it not for making a living, which is rather a...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: Action will furnish...

Arthur Hugh Clough: Action will furnish...

Action will furnish belief, - but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you...

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Jean de la Fontaine: A mountain in...

Jean de la Fontaine: A mountain in...

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be...

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William Watson: Pain with the...

William Watson: Pain with the...

Pain with the thousand teeth.

Source: The Dream of Man.
-- William Watson, (Aug...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets...

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Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Why should we strive, with cynic frown,
To knock their fairy castles down?


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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Source: Hope.
-- Georgia Douglas...

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