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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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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: I am so...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: I am so...

I am so tired and weary,
So tired of endless fight,
So weary of waiting the dawn
And finding endless...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Your world is as big as you make it.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

I've learned of life this bitter truth
Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find...

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Hesiod: A bad neighbour...

Hesiod: A bad neighbour...

A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.

Source:...

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: Our planet<br>is poorly...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Our planet
is poorly...

Our planet
is poorly equipped
for delight.
One must snatch
gladness
from the days that are.
In this...

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Edmund Waller: Poets lose half...

Edmund Waller: Poets lose half...

Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly...

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Joseph Brodsky: A poet is...

Joseph Brodsky: A poet is...

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the...

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Henry John Newbolt: There's a breathless...

Henry John Newbolt: There's a breathless...

There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight -
Ten to make and the match to win -
A bumping pitch and a...

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Jenny Joseph: When I am...

Jenny Joseph: When I am...

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall...

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Antonin Artaud: There are souls...

Antonin Artaud: There are souls...

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will...

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George Chapman: Danger is the...

George Chapman: Danger is the...

Danger is the spur of all great minds.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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George Chapman: Flatterers look like...

George Chapman: Flatterers look like...

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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John Lyly: Where the mind...

John Lyly: Where the mind...

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Martial: Each day provides...

Martial: Each day provides...

Each day provides its own gifts.

Source: Epigrams, 8, 78, A.D. 86; tr. Walter C. A....

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Douglas Jerrold: Sir, you are...

Douglas Jerrold: Sir, you are...

Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point.

Source: Speaking...

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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: Seek home for...

Thomas Tusser: Seek home for...

Seek home for rest,
For home is best.


Source: Five Hundred Points of Good...

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Shelagh Delaney: [W]hen you leave...

Shelagh Delaney: [W]hen you leave...

[W]hen you leave school finally you will find that life is a game, sometimes serious, sometimes fun, but a game that...

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