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All Quotes Collection
"There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas."
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"Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that."
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"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."
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"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"
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"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
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"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
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"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
Life,
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"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."
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"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
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"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."
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"It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed."
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"I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle."
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"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
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"Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud."
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol."
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"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
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"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
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"There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."
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"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."
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"Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them."
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"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
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"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
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