Category: poet
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott
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One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats
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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Horace
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Victor Hugo
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
D. H. Lawrence
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. Lawrence