Category: poet
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Lord Byron
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron
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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Maya Angelou
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Victor Hugo
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That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot
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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I created myself. I have taught myself so much.
Maya Angelou