Category: poet
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I write some country music. There’s a song called ‘I Hope You Dance.’ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
Maya Angelou
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I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.
Maya Angelou
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one’s soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
Victor Hugo
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
George Herbert
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats