Category: poet
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A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya Angelou
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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
George Herbert
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
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The only way round is through.
Robert Frost
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
Horace
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
Lord Byron
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron
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Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert