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Walt Whitman: Do I contradict...

Walt Whitman: Do I contradict...

Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain...

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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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Thomas Moore: No man, however...

Thomas Moore: No man, however...

No man, however great, is known to everybody and no man, however solitary, is known to...

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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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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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Robert Bridges: The day begins...

Robert Bridges: The day begins...

The day begins to droop, -
Its course is done:
But nothing tells the place
Of the setting...

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Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say...

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Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

He told me never to sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Source:...

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Hesiod: Badness you can...

Hesiod: Badness you can...

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the...

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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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Theodore Roethke: In a dark...

Theodore Roethke: In a dark...

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Source: In a Dark Time
-- Theodore...

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Henry John Newbolt: He clapped the...

Henry John Newbolt: He clapped the...

He clapped the glass to his sightless eye,
And 'I'm damned if I see it', he said.


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Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my...

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Jenny Joseph: But now we...

Jenny Joseph: But now we...

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good...

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Yul Brynner: Girls have an...

Yul Brynner: Girls have an...

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being...

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Harrison Ford: I don't feel...

Harrison Ford: I don't feel...

I don't feel good about taking the platform, merely on account of my celebrity. I believe that the people I support...

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Humphrey Bogart: The only point...

Humphrey Bogart: The only point...

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Source:...

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Ben Stein: Nothing happens by...

Ben Stein: Nothing happens by...

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by...

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Francis Galton: Well-washed and well-combed...

Francis Galton: Well-washed and well-combed...

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

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Jonas Salk: When I worked...

Jonas Salk: When I worked...

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon...

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