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5714 Poet Quotes

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
About Also Conceal Means
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Able Also Enemies Friends
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Cannot Climb Dance Day
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Controversy Fools Know Men
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Feeling Good Heightens Itself
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Create Father Good Good Father
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Forget Form Purpose One's
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Body Deepest More Philosophy
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Abstract Beauty Future Past
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Conceived Great Thoughts Truly
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Alongside Art Conquest Imitation
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Breeding Features Good Good Breeding
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Knowledge Listen Privilege Province
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Days Friend Greeting His
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Few Flag Most Mount
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

About All Day Break Bubble
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Cheerful Far Forty Forty Years
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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Bosom Carry Key Men
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Authors Blessed Chips Contrived
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Money Put Trust Your
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Crowded Fruition Happy Hours
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Any Bait Covers Hook
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Copy Improve Model Other
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Best Best Way Enemy Field
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Absurdity Champion Defend Every
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject

Abject Between Commerce Disinterested
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Heaven Interesting Interesting People Missing
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Without music, life would be a mistake.

Life Mistake Music Without
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Alone Best Deeply Had
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Bad Christian Find Made
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Cure Love Pair Person
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Ah Frequent Higher Highs
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Determine Future Ground Hierarchy
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Art is the proper task of life.

Art Life Proper Task
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Bore Life Ourselves Short
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Able Age Ask Believe
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Another Each Gets His
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Boldly Indignant Lies Man
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Able Climb Either Higher
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Always Bad Cooking Education
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Become Bore Care Fights
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Better Blessed Blunders Even
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Art Die Order Truth
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Accuracy Equivalent Observation Thinking
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Money is a kind of poetry.

Kind Money Poetry
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Because Bottom Boy Echoes
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Looks Man Poet Way
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Artifice Extent Imagination Life
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Bore Complicated Else Everything
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

About Acute Deal Egotism
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