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Aphra Behn: There is no...

Aphra Behn: There is no...

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Source: Willmore, in The Rover, act 1, sc....

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Aphra Behn: Love's a thin...

Aphra Behn: Love's a thin...

Love's a thin diet, nor will keep out cold.

Source: The Lucky Chance, 1686.
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John Keats: Many have original...

John Keats: Many have original...

Many have original minds who do not think it -- they are led away by custom.

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Robert Browning: Genius has somewhat...

Robert Browning: Genius has somewhat...

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Every epoch, under...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Every epoch, under...

Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors.

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Emily Dickinson: A word is...

Emily Dickinson: A word is...

A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.


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Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit...

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William Carlos Williams: By listening to...

William Carlos Williams: By listening to...

By listening to the language of his locality the poet learns his craft. It is his function to lift, by the use of his...

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John Clare: The present is...

John Clare: The present is...

The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life.


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Dante: Art, as far...

Dante: Art, as far...

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's...

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John Donne: Who are a...

John Donne: Who are a...

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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

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Thomas Moore: The world is...

Thomas Moore: The world is...

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams...

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Sophocles: One must learn...

Sophocles: One must learn...

One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Art is refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Source: In...

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Young man, how...

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Young man, how...

Young man, how many loves have you? I have hardly any, cousin, for they are only seven: the first, who cuts my...

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David Hare: The ultimate tendency...

David Hare: The ultimate tendency...

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Source: In The...

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John Osborne: The whole point...

John Osborne: The whole point...

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. . . . People...

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Aeschylus: Call no man...

Aeschylus: Call no man...

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Sean O'Casey: It's only a...

Sean O'Casey: It's only a...

It's only a little cold I have; there's nothing derogatory wrong with me.

Source:...

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Nathalie Sarraute: . . ....

Nathalie Sarraute: . . ....

. . . what is hidden beneath the interior monologue: an immense profusion of sensations, images, sentiments, memories,...

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