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Quotes by Dramatist
"And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with good, and thy love is stronger than I am. Wherefore will I tempt thee no longer, but I pray thee to suffer me to enter thy heart, that I may be with thee even as before.""Surely thou mayest enter," said the young Fisherman, "for in the days when with no heart thou didst go through the world thou must have suffered.""Alas!" cried his Soul, "I can find no place of entrance, so compassed about with love is this heart of thine."
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"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
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"Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want."
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"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
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"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
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"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."
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"With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he's been released, he doesn't notice the birds anymore, just as beforehand. In the same way you won't notice Moscow, when you actually live there."
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"Sometime [Queen Mab] driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,Of healths five fathom deep; and then anonDrums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or twoAnd sleeps again."
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"I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest."
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"The quality of mercy is not strained;It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath. It is twice blessed;It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown; * * * * *It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;It is an attribute to God himself."
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"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."
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"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"
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"Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone."
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"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."
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"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity."
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"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile."
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless."
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"No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart."
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"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
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