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5714 Poet Quotes

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Deeds Determine Much Our
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Apt Conscientious Course Duty
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Giving Know Luxury Must
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Angry Cruelty Direct Effect
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Come Happiness May Prepare
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Acquaintance Beginning Definite Get
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Ask Certainty Deed Done
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Compare Each Expect Experience
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters

After Longer Rather Read
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Dead Forgotten Never Our
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Best Failure Fear Hugging
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Be True Best Failure Knows
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Agreement Delightful Friendships Liking
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Break Desire Future No Future
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Anything Detect Fold Heart
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Does Done Forward Important
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Forsake Helpful Human More
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Dreary Life Makes Motive
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Been Duties Find Might
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Fly Our Where Wings
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Abstain Blessed Evidence Fact
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Been It Is Never Too Late Late Might
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Brought Done Great Great Things
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Another Duty Fulfill Power
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Agreeable Animals Ask Criticisms
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Account Country Deal Explanation
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Always Asked Being Between
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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
About Childbirth Get Like
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Emotion Found Poetry Thought
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
All The Difference Difference Less Made
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

About Everything Goes I Can
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Composed Half Keep Nothing
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Down Ever Fence Know
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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Come Country Little Part
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Go Home Place Take
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Brain Does Get Moment
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The best way out is always through.
Always Best Best Way Out
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Better Chosen Consists Decide
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Gets Lost Poetry Translation
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Body Development Devote His
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Happiness Height Lacks Length
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Boss Day Eight Eventually
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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

About Anything Earth Funny
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Begins Delight Ends Poem
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Age Always Birthday Diplomat
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Big Forgive Great Joke
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Anybody Go Go To Hell Hell
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Reader Surprise Tears Writer
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Around Circles Forward He
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