Category: poet
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If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.
George Herbert
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I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.
Maya Angelou
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
D. H. Lawrence
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
Maya Angelou
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.