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5714 Poet Quotes

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Original Unfaithful Translation
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Die Religion Easier Live
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Writing Guided Dream
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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?

Read Understanding Language
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Reality Sense Real
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Talk Improve Silence
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Plant Gardens Soul Flowers
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Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Nothing Built Stone Sand
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government

Believe Time Free Government
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Book Isolated Relationship
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

Loneliness Worry Life Habits
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

Happy Beloved Live Love
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Weakness Strength
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is

Life Complicated Moment Man
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The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral

Art Writing Opinions Ephemeral
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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

End Images Memory Words
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..a miracle has the right to impose conditions.

Miracle Right Impose Conditons
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics

Democracy Abuse Statistics
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry Oral Art Written
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Problem Writing Casualty
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Jealousy Pain Feels Loves
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Reading Tool Living Good life
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.

Cheerfulness Daylight Mind
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Nothing Receive Relunctance Advice
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Contented mind Blessing Man World
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

Books Legacies Mankind Generation
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Sculpture Marble Education Soul
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.

Deserve Praise
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Man's Care Reproaches Heart
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Indulge Sorrows Fury Despair
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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Something Posterity Fain
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover

Human life Friendship Enjoyment Discover
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Success Experience Caution Hope
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Misery Nature Evil Temper
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Man Believes Virtue Truth
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Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Quick Sensitivity Understanding
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He who hesitates is lost.

Hesitates Lost
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Exempt Passions Tormented Solitude
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Nothing Directly Soul Beauty
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Valuable Man Attention Infirmities
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Question Pleasures Life Happy
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Imperfection Gentle Quiet Defects
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Sunshine Smiles Humanity Life's
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Life Reading Useful Authors
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures

Blessings Pains Losses Patience
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True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation

Compassion Existence Creature Sensation
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station

Content Good Honor Private
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness Life Love Hope
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.

Cherished World Someone Burdens
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Cheerfulness Health Mind Body
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