Category: poet
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot
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Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope
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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Horace
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. Lawrence
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.
Maya Angelou
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The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.
Maya Angelou