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I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.
Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise.
Source: Roderick Random, Ch. 6.
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Facts are stubborn things.
Source: Gil Blas de Santillane, bk. 10, ch. 1,...
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Source: In Instant Quotation...
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share;
Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom...
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
Source: In Webster's...
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
Source: Pharsalia.
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Boldness can mask great fear.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
Greatness collapses of itself, such is the limit the gods have set to the growth of prosperous...
The bravest man is he who is prepared to cope with present dangers and to wait for a better...
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find,...
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Source: Poems in Praise, 1959.
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All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the unvisionary language of farm, city...
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of...
Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down...
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Source: In Instant Quotation...
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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