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Quotes by Poet
"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."
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"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"
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"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."
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"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go."
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"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
Man,
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"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
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"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went."
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"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred."
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"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."
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"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."
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"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."
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"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."
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"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
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"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
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"The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood."
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
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"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."
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"Science begs literature to develop wings."
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"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."
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