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5714 Poet Quotes

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Timid Impossible
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Raise Invention Eyes
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Side Bolt
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Vices Wine
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Race Perish Power
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Nails
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Life Burden Finding That
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Faces Charm Soon
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architect He Himself History
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Love Crowning Humanity Grace
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Peace Ambition Banished Perpetual
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Perhaps Absence Soul Breathe
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Man Greater Enemy Himself
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Book Heart Close Articulate
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Truth Better Good Than
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
Sleep Death End Allowed
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

All Dream World Pleasure
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Virtue Health Vice Sickness
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Suspicion Cancer Friendship Love
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Moment Ennobles Place Great
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Born Time Own Preferred
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

Man Proposed Enemy Contrary
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.

Glory Reaches Earthly Fame
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A good death does honour to a whole life.

Death Whole Life Honour
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Freeze Sweet Flood Tears
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Age Else Every Many
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Bed Bodies Bundle Early
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Alliance Birthdays Forgets Marriage
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Children Created Happy Ignore
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Biting Feed Ought Remorse
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Animal Children Cold Common
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Admit Cup Keep Love
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Fond People Really Telling
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Children Naive Parents Tangled
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Rather Reasonable Right Than
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

Early Late Maturing Mind
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Beyond Control Exciting Forces
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Earn Enough Money Want
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

About Acquiring Debts Fun
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

Buy Buying Certainly Ever
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

Because Been Era Get
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Came Drink Know Whence
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

About Argument Came Doctor
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Door Found Key Might
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Retires Solitude Soul Thoughtful
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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Again Come Fate Life
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Cancel Finger Half Having
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Back Decide Happen Happening
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Blown Dies Flower Forever
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Anon Ashes Desert Dusty
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