Category: poet
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
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A cherub’s face, a reptile all the rest.
Alexander Pope
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Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
George Herbert
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
Victor Hugo
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
Victor Hugo
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One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
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Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
Virgil
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way – and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.