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Douglas Jerrold: Happiness grows at...

Douglas Jerrold: Happiness grows at...

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

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Nicolas Chamfort: People are governed...

Nicolas Chamfort: People are governed...

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Source:...

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Miguel de Cervantes: Don't put too...

Miguel de Cervantes: Don't put too...

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Source: In...

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Terry McMillan: It's sad to...

Terry McMillan: It's sad to...

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But...

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Charlotte Bronte: Prejudices, it is...

Charlotte Bronte: Prejudices, it is...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or...

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Aeschylus: It is in...

Aeschylus: It is in...

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

Source: A...

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Robert E Sherwood: The trouble with...

Robert E Sherwood: The trouble with...

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

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Alexander Pope: An honest man's...

Alexander Pope: An honest man's...

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Source: An Essay on Man, 1734
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Alexander Pope: The learn'd is...

Alexander Pope: The learn'd is...

The learn'd is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more.


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Novalis: Only as far...

Novalis: Only as far...

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in...

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Samuel Beckett: I write about...

Samuel Beckett: I write about...

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another...

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Thornton Wilder: Every good thing...

Thornton Wilder: Every good thing...

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Source: Wriston's...

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William Wordsworth: Is there not<br>An...

William Wordsworth: Is there not
An...

Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of...

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William Wordsworth: My brain<br>Worked with...

William Wordsworth: My brain
Worked with...

My brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being.


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Stephane Mallarme: You don't make...

Stephane Mallarme: You don't make...

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Andrew Marvell: I have a...

Andrew Marvell: I have a...

I have a garden of my own,
But so with roses overgrown,
And lilies, that you would it guess
To be a little...

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Francis Thompson: Summer set lip...

Francis Thompson: Summer set lip...

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.


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Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say...

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Jean de la Fontaine: But the shortest...

Jean de la Fontaine: But the shortest...

But the shortest works are always the best.

Source: Fables, X, 'Les Lapins'.
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