Category: poet
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Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo
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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Horace
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron
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Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Virgil
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Victor Hugo
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Lord Byron