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"That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance."

"That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance."

Muhammed Iqbal, Indian Poet

Christian, Christianity, Man, Mission, Psychology

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"What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw."

"What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Religion, Fate, God, Surprise, Destiny

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"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us, shedding light over this world can alone help us."

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us, shedding light over this world can alone help us."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Ethics, Morality, Action, Responsibility, Change

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"If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees."

"If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Nature, Earth, Intelligence, Life

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"I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil."

"I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil."

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poet

Life, Evil, Struggle

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"Greatness is a spiritual condition."

"Greatness is a spiritual condition."

Matthew Arnold, English Poet

Greatness, Spiritual

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"Argue not concerning God, re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul."

"Argue not concerning God, re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Faith, Truth, Rebellion, Freedom

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"Man has no greater enemy than himself."

"Man has no greater enemy than himself."

Petrarch, Italian Poet

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"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own."

"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own."

Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet

Awareness, Mourning

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"Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor."

"Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Pain, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

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"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."

"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."

Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Poet

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"Unto you is bornin the city of Davida Savior for all."

"Unto you is bornin the city of Davida Savior for all."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Birth, Faith, Truth, Happiness, Today

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"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

Time, Strength, Passion, Patience

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"I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak."

"I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Listening, Wisdom, Truth, Today, Inspirational

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"They say eyes clear with age."

"They say eyes clear with age."

Philip Larkin, English Poet

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"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else."

"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"New light in the skyannounces a sacred birth.Shine brightly young star."

"New light in the skyannounces a sacred birth.Shine brightly young star."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Birth, Today, Happiness, Inspirational, Truth

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"I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces."

"I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Self-Image, Body, Perception, Identity, Self-Awareness

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"The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts."

"The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Discovery, Facts

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"Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them."

"Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them."

Richard Le Gallienne, English Poet

Life, Nature, Difference, Man

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"Don't tell me peace has broken out."

"Don't tell me peace has broken out."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

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"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun."

"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun."

Christina G. Rossetti, English Poet

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"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."

"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."

George Byron, Scottish Poet

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"The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition."

"The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Love, Heart, Devotion, Nature

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"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."

"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."

Juvenal, Roman Poet

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"Day of the Lord as all our days should be!"

"Day of the Lord as all our days should be!"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Faith, Day, Life, Spiritual

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"Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws."

"Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

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"Love is the cheapest of religions."

"Love is the cheapest of religions."

Cesare Pavese, Italian Poet

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"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."

"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."

Edmund Waller, English Poet

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"It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism."

"It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism."

Czeslaw Milosz, Polish Poet

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"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."

"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."

May Sarton, American Poet

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"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."

"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."

Archibald MacLeish, American Poet

Choice, Freedom, Right

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"I couldn't have dreamed you into existence because I didn't even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me."

"I couldn't have dreamed you into existence because I didn't even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Love, Existence, Needs, Connection

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"Balance in life is the key to everything."

"Balance in life is the key to everything."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Harmony, Balance, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Failure, Actions

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"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."

"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

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"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."

"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Virtue, Gold, World

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"Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality."

"Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality."

Sydney Carter, English Poet

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"Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience."

"Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience."

Sharon Olds, American Poet

Experience, Beginning, Poems

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"A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld,-The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.But peers beyond her mesh,And wishes, and denies,-Lest interview annul a wantThat image satisfies."

"A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld,-The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.But peers beyond her mesh,And wishes, and denies,-Lest interview annul a wantThat image satisfies."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Romance, Mystery, Love, Emotion, Imagination

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"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

George Byron, Scottish Poet

Thought, Dew, Words

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"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."

"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

Friendship, Dying, Friends, Years

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"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."

"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."

Philip Massinger, British Poet

Courage, Calamity

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"If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind."

"If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

Mind, Growth, Thought, Metaphor

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"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."

"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."

"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."

Mary Oliver, American Poet

Life, Love, Time, World

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"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Humor, Tennis, Writing

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"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."

"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

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"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."

"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."

Nikki Giovanni, American Poet

Life, Failure, Mind

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"The greatest sin you can ever commit is to break a soul, which was already broken but still chose to trust you."

"The greatest sin you can ever commit is to break a soul, which was already broken but still chose to trust you."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Morality, Sin, Trust, Love, Betrayal

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