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Wole Soyinka: My father used...

Wole Soyinka: My father used...

My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a...

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Tristan Bernard: When we are...

Tristan Bernard: When we are...

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach too near and gaze on it in shop...

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Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Source: The Lover's...

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Neil Simon: You must realize...

Neil Simon: You must realize...

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into...

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Alexander Pope: Nature, and Nature's...

Alexander Pope: Nature, and Nature's...

Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was...

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Walt Whitman: The art of...

Walt Whitman: The art of...

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is...

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Dante: Worldly fame is...

Dante: Worldly fame is...

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes...

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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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Robert Herrick: Attempt the end,...

Robert Herrick: Attempt the end,...

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find 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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Sophocles: One must learn...

Sophocles: One must learn...

One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you...

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Robert Burns: There is no...

Robert Burns: There is no...

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Source: Attributed.
-- Robert...

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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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Thomas Campbell: Gentlemen, you must...

Thomas Campbell: Gentlemen, you must...

Gentlemen, you must not mistake me. I admit that he is the sworn foe of our nation, and, if you will, of the whole...

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Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the...

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Cecil Frances Alexander: The rich man...

Cecil Frances Alexander: The rich man...

The rich man in his castle,
the poor man at his gate,
God made them, high or lowly,
and ordered their...

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Stephane Mallarme: Dreams have as...

Stephane Mallarme: Dreams have as...

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: Tis better to...

Arthur Hugh Clough: Tis better to...

Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.


Source:...

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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.

Source:...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Boldness can mask...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Boldness can mask...

Boldness can mask great fear.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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