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Nicolas Boileau: The wisest man...

Nicolas Boileau: The wisest man...

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Source: In Correct...

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Charlotte Bronte: A ruffled mind...

Charlotte Bronte: A ruffled mind...

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Source: The Professor, 1846.
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Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state...

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Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

It requires genius to make a good pun -- some men of bright parts can't reach it.

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Aeschylus: There are times...

Aeschylus: There are times...

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place

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Noel Coward: I'm over-educated in...

Noel Coward: I'm over-educated in...

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

Source: In Peter's...

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Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave.


Source: The...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Some men by...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Some men by...

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Source: In Webster's...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: The bravest man...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: The bravest man...

The bravest man is he who is prepared to cope with present dangers and to wait for a better...

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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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Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.

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Alexander Pope: Hope springs eternal...

Alexander Pope: Hope springs eternal...

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Knowledge comes, but...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Knowledge comes, but...

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Source: Locksley Hall, 143.
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William Wordsworth: The best portion...

William Wordsworth: The best portion...

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of...

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Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it...

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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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Moslih Eddin Saadi: That which is...

Moslih Eddin Saadi: That which is...

That which is not allotted - the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted - will find you wherever you may...

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Sophocles: It is terrible...

Sophocles: It is terrible...

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Edmund Spenser: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Edmund Spenser: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Sweete Themmes! runne softly, till I end my Song.

Source: Prothalamion.
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Edith Sitwell: I have often...

Edith Sitwell: I have often...

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. . . . But I am too busy thinking about...

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