Category: poet
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
Walt Whitman
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
Lord Byron
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
John Keats
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The ‘good old times’ – all times when old are good.
Lord Byron
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You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
Robert Frost
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
William Blake
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow