Category: poet
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Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
George Herbert
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Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Horace
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Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
Virgil
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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake
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I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
Maya Angelou
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I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
Maya Angelou
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo
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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
William Wordsworth