Category: poet
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
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Violent anger makes me physically ill.
Langston Hughes
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Horace