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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poetry lifts the...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poetry lifts the...

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not...

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Ludovico Ariosto: Man proposes, God...

Ludovico Ariosto: Man proposes, God...

Man proposes, God disposes.

Source: In 12,000 Religious Quotations, by Frank S....

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Francesco Petrarch: Who naught suspects...

Francesco Petrarch: Who naught suspects...

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Source: In The Manager's Book of...

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John Donne: When I must...

John Donne: When I must...

When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy...

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Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it...

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Joaquin Miller: The soul that...

Joaquin Miller: The soul that...

The soul that feeds on books alone --
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,...

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Thomas Moore: There is nothing...

Thomas Moore: There is nothing...

There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams.

Source: In Wisdom of...

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Edwin A Robinson: I shall have...

Edwin A Robinson: I shall have...

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

Source: John Brown.
-- Edwin A...

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Martin Tupper: Reflection is a...

Martin Tupper: Reflection is a...

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and...

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Anne Sexton: In a dream...

Anne Sexton: In a dream...

In a dream you are never eighty.

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

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Joyce Kilmer: The air is...

Joyce Kilmer: The air is...

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings
The happy earth looks at the sky
And...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I hate flowers...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I hate flowers...

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

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Alfred P Sloan, Jr: In any organization...

Alfred P Sloan, Jr: In any organization...

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because...

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W Clement Stone: Try, try, try,...

W Clement Stone: Try, try, try,...

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in...

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John Berger: Publicity is the...

John Berger: Publicity is the...

Publicity is the life of this culture -- in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive -- and at the...

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Cecil Beaton: Be daring, be...

Cecil Beaton: Be daring, be...

Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision...

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Cecil Beaton: I have the...

Cecil Beaton: I have the...

I have the worst, ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always, hear the woman in the back...

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Francis Galton: The cat is...

Francis Galton: The cat is...

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of...

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Jean Anouilh: True miracles are...

Jean Anouilh: True miracles are...

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave...

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Douglas Jerrold: Readers are of...

Douglas Jerrold: Readers are of...

Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go...

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