Category: poet
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The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D. H. Lawrence
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
Virgil
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
Mary Oliver
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Alexander Pope
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
Lord Byron
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou