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Samuel Beckett: Nothing matters but...

Samuel Beckett: Nothing matters but...

Nothing matters but writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile. . . a stain upon the...

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Alexander Pope: To err is...

Alexander Pope: To err is...

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Source: An Essay on Criticism.
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: The learn'd is...

Alexander Pope: The learn'd is...

The learn'd is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more.


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Alexander Pope: Order is heav'ns...

Alexander Pope: Order is heav'ns...

Order is heav'ns first law.

Source: An Essay on Man
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21...

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

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and bears a laden breast
Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness...

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Jean Anouilh: What you get...

Jean Anouilh: What you get...

What you get free costs too much.

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

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Jean Anouilh: Everything ends this...

Jean Anouilh: Everything ends this...

Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state -- everything...

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Charles Dibdin: For they say...

Charles Dibdin: For they say...

For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor...

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George Chapman: Flatterers look like...

George Chapman: Flatterers look like...

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Douglas Jerrold: Some people are...

Douglas Jerrold: Some people are...

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

Source: In...

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Nicolas Chamfort: People are governed...

Nicolas Chamfort: People are governed...

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Source:...

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Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Life and death occur, as they must, but they are all bound up with love and hatred, in the individual bosom, and it is...

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Francis Beaumont: Nothing's so dainty...

Francis Beaumont: Nothing's so dainty...

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Source: The Nice Valour,...

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Luigi Pirandello: I would love...

Luigi Pirandello: I would love...

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that...

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Colley Cibber: This business will...

Colley Cibber: This business will...

This business will never hold water.

Source: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, Act...

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William Cowper: God moves in...

William Cowper: God moves in...

God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the...

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Emily Dickinson: Nature is what...

Emily Dickinson: Nature is what...

Nature is what we know -
Yet have not art to say -
So impotent our wisdom is
To her...

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William Carlos Williams: Times change and...

William Carlos Williams: Times change and...

Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the...

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Dante: Art, as far...

Dante: Art, as far...

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's...

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Martin Tupper: He who does...

Martin Tupper: He who does...

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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