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Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

A Deed knocks first at Thought
And then -- it knocks at Will --
That is the manufacturing...

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Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.


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Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Children see things very well sometimes -- and idealists even better.

Source: In...

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Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

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Samuel Beckett: I have my...

Samuel Beckett: I have my...

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Source: The...

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Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Business? it's quite simple: it's other people's money.

Source: Giraud, in La...

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Wole Soyinka: Suddenly the world...

Wole Soyinka: Suddenly the world...

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind

Source: Kongi's...

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Tristan Bernard: When we are...

Tristan Bernard: When we are...

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach too near and gaze on it in shop...

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Tristan Bernard: To live happily...

Tristan Bernard: To live happily...

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.

Source: In...

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Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Source: Narcissa,...

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Robert Browning: Grow old along...

Robert Browning: Grow old along...

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: The more we...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The more we...

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Source: In Instant Quotation...

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Virgil: Fortune sides with...

Virgil: Fortune sides with...

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Source: Aeneid.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15 70BC-19BC),...

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Walt Whitman: The art of...

Walt Whitman: The art of...

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is...

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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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Dante: Nature is the...

Dante: Nature is the...

Nature is the art of God eternal.

Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of...

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Fulke Greville: No man was...

Fulke Greville: No man was...

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Joaquin Miller: The biggest dog...

Joaquin Miller: The biggest dog...

The biggest dog has been a pup.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Thomas Moore: My only books,...

Thomas Moore: My only books,...

My only books,
Were Woman's looks,
And Folly's all they taught me.


Source:...

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