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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: True wit is...

Alexander Pope: True wit is...

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd;
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well...

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Wole Soyinka: My father used...

Wole Soyinka: My father used...

My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a...

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J August Strindberg: I always disliked...

J August Strindberg: I always disliked...

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant...

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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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Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul,...

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Robert Bly: I have wandered...

Robert Bly: I have wandered...

I have wandered in a face, for hours . . .

Source: In The Concise Columbia...

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Joaquin Miller: All honor to...

Joaquin Miller: All honor to...

All honor to him who shall win the prize,'
The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to him who tries...

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Christina Rossetti: I might show...

Christina Rossetti: I might show...

I might show facts as plain as day:
But since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
Where? What? and turn...

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Denise Levertov: One of the...

Denise Levertov: One of the...

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as...

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Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

[T]he man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

Source: In 2,715...

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Samuel Beckett: There's man all...

Samuel Beckett: There's man all...

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Source:...

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Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a...

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Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes...

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Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the...

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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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Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,
And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner.
Then be off to your...

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Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.


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Hesiod: If thou shouldst...

Hesiod: If thou shouldst...

If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become...

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