Category: poet
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence
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Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost
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I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
Maya Angelou
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats
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The day of the absolute is over, and we’re in for the strange gods once more.
D. H. Lawrence
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo