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5714 Poet Quotes

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Gifts Faithfully Practice Knowledge
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
Life Noble Ideas Life
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Culture Best Thought World
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

Fate Chance Control Soul
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Pursuit Perfection Sweetness Light
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They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Gifts Chance Conquered Fate
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Business Passion Life Steadily
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Culture Love Perfection Study
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

True Religion Morality Emotion
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

Brave Heart Subtle Head
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Conduct Life Concern
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

Men Culture Apostles Equality
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Poetry Idea World Illusion
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Knowledge Wise man Nature
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Culture Intellectual Moral
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Poetry Power Delighting
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Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Truth Joy Pleasure Spirits
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Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Religion Voice Human Experience
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Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

Change Tranquil Strength Men
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

True Feeling Justifies Cost
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite

Education Society Opposite
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Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers

Darkness Birth Light Flowers
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We fear disturbance, change, fear to bring to light and to talk about what is painful. Suffering often feels like failure, but it is actually the door into growth.

Fear Change Painful Growth
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Art must be nourished by faith, the faith of an equal.

Art Nourished Faith Equal
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It is never a waste of time to be outdoors, and never a waste of time to rest, even for a few hours.

Waste Time Rest
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Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

Routine Prison Freedom Time
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The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

Moral Dilemma Peace
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self

Loneliness Poverty Self Solitude
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become

Articulate Dangerous Words
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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Dare Frightening Strange Prove
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

Words Powerful Suspects Mind
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Think Hero Behave Human being
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Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

Love Hate Gifts Laughter
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Partner Love Relationship Feel
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Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
Music Power People Art
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Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

Music Powerful Change Mood
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Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Music Energy Sense Purpose
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We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Bomb World Peace
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My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.

Music Stories Inspire People
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Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living

Life Hoping Waiting Living
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Cause when there's life there's still hope

Life Hope
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions

Stories Think Dream Questions
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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

Problem Solved People Trust
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I must survive. I have promises to keep

Survive Promises
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Good experiences give us happiness but bad experiences teach us good lessons
Experiences Happiness Teach Lessons
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We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had

Fought Music Weapon
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It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

Teacher Difference Classroom
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Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Worry Famous Money Life
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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Children Motivated Reading School
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

Books Kids Read World
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