Category: poet
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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
D. H. Lawrence
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I’d rather write about polar bears than people.
Mary Oliver