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Quotes by Poet
"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
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"Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."
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"Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message."
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"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
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"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
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"When a child truly understands his grand potential, he looks to the stars not simply to make a wish but to chart a destination."
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"Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people."
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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
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"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
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"Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears."
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"The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture."
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"The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis."
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"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."
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"Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance."
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"The highway of human possibility extends on forever into unknown territories, which have not yet been imagined."
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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
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"We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous."
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"There is strength in numbers, yes, but even more so in collective good will. For those endeavors are supported by mighty forces unseen."
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"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
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"Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation."
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"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
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