Category: poet
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Virgil
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo
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Fortune favours the bold.
Virgil
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Do what you will, this world’s a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Alexander Pope
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.