Category: poet
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
Victor Hugo
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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We are free to yield to truth.
Horace
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott
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My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
Maya Angelou
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Victor Hugo
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’
Maya Angelou