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A. E. Housman

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."

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"Self-confident people tend to be optimistic thinkers and focus on the positives."

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"Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperiencedgirl like me. Indeed, to say the truth, there was something exhilaratingin the idea of being driven to straits, and thrown upon our own resources.I only wished papa, mamma, and Mary were all of the samemind as myself; and then, instead of lamenting past calamities we mightall cheerfully set to work to remedy them; and the greater the difficulties, the harder our present privations, the greater should be our cheerfulness to endure the latter, and our vigour to contend against the former."

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"You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact."

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"If it rains during sunshine, don't worry; you'll see your rainbow."

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"Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency."

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"Maybe it was impossible. But maybe it wasn't. Like Vikus said, nothing would happen unless you hoped it could. If you had hope, maybe you could find the way to make things change. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try."

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"Today is tomorrow of yesterday.. a better day.. to start with."

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"There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life."

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"Maybe it's for good what has happen, maybe it's not for good. Nobody knows, but don't ruin your day thinking about this sad event (The Dead). In the film "The Night Before", the same thing happen, but it went to something new and wonderful, marvelous how??The friends become best friends, parties, loads fun. This is all what we need!"

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"I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism."

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"Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed."
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"Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
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"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
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"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
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"If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
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"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
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