Category: poet
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Victor Hugo
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
Lord Byron
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
Alexander Pope
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To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
Maya Angelou
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Alexander Pope
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
Maya Angelou