Category: poet
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats
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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord Byron
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In all my work, I try to say – ‘You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?’
Maya Angelou
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Victor Hugo
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo
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For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou
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A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.
Maya Angelou