Category: poet
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo
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You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’
Maya Angelou
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Anger is a short madness.
Horace
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
D. H. Lawrence
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord Byron
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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Lord Byron
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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.
Maya Angelou
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
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Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo