Category: poet
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I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya Angelou
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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Victor Hugo
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
Lord Byron
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo
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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.
Maya Angelou
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
Virgil