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John Keats: The only means...

John Keats: The only means...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a...

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Ovid: Seeking is all...

Ovid: Seeking is all...

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for...

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Ovid: Everything comes gradually...

Ovid: Everything comes gradually...

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Virgil: They are able...

Virgil: They are able...

They are able because they think they are able.

Source: In Instant Quotation...

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Emily Dickinson: A word is...

Emily Dickinson: A word is...

A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.


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Pindar: If one but...

Pindar: If one but...

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the...

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Robert Bly: When a father,...

Robert Bly: When a father,...

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his...

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Thomas Gray: Where ignorance is...

Thomas Gray: Where ignorance is...

Where ignorance is bliss -
Tis folly to be wise.


Source: Ode on a Distant...

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Thomas Gray: If the best...

Thomas Gray: If the best...

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his...

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Joaquin Miller: All honor to...

Joaquin Miller: All honor to...

All honor to him who shall win the prize,'
The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to him who tries...

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Thomas Moore: The world is...

Thomas Moore: The world is...

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams...

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Denise Levertov: One of the...

Denise Levertov: One of the...

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as...

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Edith Sitwell: Poetry ennobles the...

Edith Sitwell: Poetry ennobles the...

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell....

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Aeschylus: Time brings all...

Aeschylus: Time brings all...

Time brings all things to pass.

Source: The Libation Bearers'
-- Aeschylus, ( ...

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Aeschylus: And even in...

Aeschylus: And even in...

And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our...

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Wilson Mizner: When you take...

Wilson Mizner: When you take...

When you take stuff from one author, it's plagiarism; if you take it from many writers, it's...

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Samuel Beckett: I shall state...

Samuel Beckett: I shall state...

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of...

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Oscar Wilde: America has been...

Oscar Wilde: America has been...

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

Source: In...

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Oscar Wilde: Only the shallow...

Oscar Wilde: Only the shallow...

Only the shallow know themselves.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,...

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Alexander Pope: Not to go...

Alexander Pope: Not to go...

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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