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Quotes by Poet

"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."
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John Donne
"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."
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"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
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Hilaire Belloc
"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
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"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."
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Horace
"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."
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"We live in the world when we love it."
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Rabindranath Tagore
"We live in the world when we love it."
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"I sustain myself with the love of family."
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Maya Angelou
"I sustain myself with the love of family."
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"Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger."
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Horace
"Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger."
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"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
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"God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard."
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Aeschylus
"God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard."
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
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Kahlil Gibran
"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
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"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
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Alphonse de Lamartine
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
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"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."
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Homer
"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."
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"Success is dependent on effort."
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Sophocles
"Success is dependent on effort."
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"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
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Jorge Luis Borges
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
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"A heart makes a good home for the friend."
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Yunus Emre
"A heart makes a good home for the friend."
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"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
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Kahlil Gibran
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
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"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."
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Muhammad Iqbal
"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."
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"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass."
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Muhammad Iqbal
"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass."
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"A fault is fostered by concealment."
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Virgil
"A fault is fostered by concealment."
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"A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong."
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Henrik Ibsen
"A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong."
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"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while."
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Horace
"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while."
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"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."
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Horace
"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."
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"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy."
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"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
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Paul Valery
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
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"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
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Henrik Ibsen
"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
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"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry."
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Muhammad Iqbal
"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry."
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"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
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Oliver Goldsmith
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
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"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
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Walt Whitman
"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
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"Everything is sweetened by risk."
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Alexander Smith
"Everything is sweetened by risk."
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"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."
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James Russell Lowell
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."
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"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance."
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Ben Jonson
"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance."
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"But a dandy can never be a vulgar man."
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Charles Baudelaire
"But a dandy can never be a vulgar man."
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"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
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"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."
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John Donne
"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."
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"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
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Ben Okri
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
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"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."
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Saadi
"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."
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"Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won."
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Paul Celan
"Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won."
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"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
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Kahlil Gibran
"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
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"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."
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Horace
"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."
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"I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them."
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Judith Wright
"I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them."
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"Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all."
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Virgil
"Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all."
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"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
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Kahlil Gibran
"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
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Omar Khayyam
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
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"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
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Rumi
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
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"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."
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Walter Savage Landor
"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."
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"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."
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Muhammad Iqbal
"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."
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"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."
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Hesiod
"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."
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"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."
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William Butler Yeats
"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."
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"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
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Muriel Rukeyser
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
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"Reality is not always probable, or likely."
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Jorge Luis Borges
"Reality is not always probable, or likely."
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"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."
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Kahlil Gibran
"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."
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