Category: poet
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I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and… almost involuntary in my life.
Mary Oliver
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Lord Byron
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I shudder when relating it.
Virgil
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Don’t be ‘consistent’, but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
Mary Oliver
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Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace
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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
William Wordsworth
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Emily Dickinson
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson