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J August Strindberg: What an occupation!...

J August Strindberg: What an occupation!...

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy...

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J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions...

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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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Francis Quarles: If thy words...

Francis Quarles: If thy words...

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may...

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Denise Levertov: The poem has...

Denise Levertov: The poem has...

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in...

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Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Aeschylus: The reward of...

Aeschylus: The reward of...

The reward of suffering is experience.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Wilson Mizner: I can usually...

Wilson Mizner: I can usually...

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Martial: Epigrams need no...

Martial: Epigrams need no...

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

Source: Epigrams, 2,...

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Douglas Jerrold: Fortunes made in...

Douglas Jerrold: Fortunes made in...

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long...

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Nicolas Chamfort: The success of...

Nicolas Chamfort: The success of...

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the...

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Charlotte Bronte: Men judge us...

Charlotte Bronte: Men judge us...

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The shell must...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The shell must...

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My strength is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My strength is...

My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.


Source: Sir...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh yet we...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh yet we...

Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill!


Source: In...

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G C Lichtenberg: When a book...

G C Lichtenberg: When a book...

When a book and a head collide, and there is a hollow sound, is it always in the book?

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Look in my...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Look in my...

Look in my face; my name is
Might-have-been.
I am also called No-more,...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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Henry Ward Beecher: Truths are first...

Henry Ward Beecher: Truths are first...

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Source: Life Thoughts,...

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Henry Ward Beecher: Now comes the...

Henry Ward Beecher: Now comes the...

Now comes the mystery.

Source: Said on his deathbed.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, (Jun...

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