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Neil Simon: Don't listen to...

Neil Simon: Don't listen to...

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it...

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John Keats: The only means...

John Keats: The only means...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a...

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Robert Browning: Ah, but a...

Robert Browning: Ah, but a...

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

Source:...

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Robert Frost: I shall be...

Robert Frost: I shall be...

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I...

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Ovid: Those things that...

Ovid: Those things that...

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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Frances Watkins Harper: I find,...

Frances Watkins Harper: I find,...

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . ....

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Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it...

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Robert Herrick: Attempt the end,...

Robert Herrick: Attempt the end,...

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it...

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Robert Herrick: Tears are the...

Robert Herrick: Tears are the...

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Jean de LaFontaine: In everything one...

Jean de LaFontaine: In everything one...

In everything one must consider the end.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel...

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Edwin A Robinson: Black and unblossomed...

Edwin A Robinson: Black and unblossomed...

Black and unblossomed were the ways he knew,
Dark was the glass through which his fire eye...

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Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

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Richard Armour: In larger things...

Richard Armour: In larger things...

In larger things we are convivial;
What causes trouble is the trivial.


Source:...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin....

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

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Edith Sitwell: I'm patient with...

Edith Sitwell: I'm patient with...

I'm patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Source:...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: Don't wait for...

Janet Erskine Stuart: Don't wait for...

Don't wait for ideal circumstances; they will never come; nor for the best opportunities.

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Thomas Campbell: The popularity of...

Thomas Campbell: The popularity of...

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the...

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Thomas Campbell: Truth ever lovely...

Thomas Campbell: Truth ever lovely...

Truth ever lovely - since the world began,
The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.


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