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143 Lyricist Quotes

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Disappointment Suspense Than Worse
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Affliction Bliss Brother Brothers
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Sure Sure Thing Thing Uncertainty
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Brass Collar Gentleman Him
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Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Countless Inhumanity Makes Man
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Adorn Our Violets Wet
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare Fear Honest Labor
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Always Character Complaint Cowardly
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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Before Friend Us Wide
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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

About Begins Creation Lords
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Critics Fame Paths Those
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Armor Heavy More Protects
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Defensive Existence Favourite Mind
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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

About Cant Characters Decorum
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I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

Affection Extremely Often Part
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There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

Am Anyone Arts Falsehood
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I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

Am Daily Foresee I Am
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The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.

Cheerfully Onsideration Darling Every
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Alive Am Anything Country
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There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Conscience Frame Man Me
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The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

Ambition Continue Deserve Exalted
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In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
Believe Conscience Fire Has-Been
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Youth Many glories Judgement No amount
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Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

Woman Like man So honest Thoroughly square
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It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Pretty face Grant you Underneath Flabby exterior
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Pleasure Without joy Hollow Passion
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There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

There's smile My face Human race
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Men die but an idea does not.

Men Die Idea
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Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.

Stay Young Little Rubs off
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With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

Little Luck Work
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Coughing Theater Respiratory Ailment
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Art Attempt Order Chaos
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Restrictions Easier Write
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Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words

Words Language Life Love
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Work What Art Yourself
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Children can only grow from something you love to something you lose.

Children Grow Love Lose
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Writing is a form of mischief.

Writing Form Mischief
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Music is a foreign language which everyone knows but only musicians can speak

Music Language Muscians Speak
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Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

Vision's Solution Depends Execution
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

Anything Do You New
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Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Moment Big Skies Fall
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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.

Wish Wait Keep Wolves away
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Explanation Explanations Failure Good
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