Category: poet
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Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
Maya Angelou
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Fate will find a way.
Virgil
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‘leaders’ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
Maya Angelou
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow