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5714 Poet Quotes

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Art Every Giveth Grace
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Ambition High However Human
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Accomplishments Again Always Come
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

After Because Come Deserved
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Again Back Fear Forth
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Enough Gate Knock Long
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Behind Departing Footprints Great
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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

Affection Never Talk Wasted
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Element Enough Gate Great
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Books Learning Love Serenity
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Attempted Done Earned Nights
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Attained Companions Flight Great
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Exquisite Had Like Music
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Coat He Himself Mail
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Coat He Himself Mail
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Across Better Books Conversation
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Into each life some rain must fall.

Each Fall Life Must
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Defeat Ourselves Triumph
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All things come round to him who will but wait.

All Things Come Him Round
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Begins Begun Difficult Know
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Attempted Begun Close Done
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.

All Things Change Must New
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Anvil Either Hammer Man
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Resolve and thou art free.

Art Free Resolve Thou
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Coat Generally Hole Leaves
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Always Combined Courtesy Find
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Army Author Challenge Corners
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Criticism Criticized Lies Strength
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Again Forth Fountain Returns
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Bought Gives Itself Love
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Evil Failure Good Good Thing
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Crowded Defeat Ourselves Street
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Deserved Destiny Fame Inevitable
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Procrastination is the thief of time.

Procrastination Thief Time
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Weakness Shows Satire Today
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By all means use some time to be alone.

Alone Means Some Time
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Blush Brute Man Quite
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Take Brighten Flight How
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Character Foes Makes Man
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
Friend Hazards Run Worth
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Friendship Life Neither New
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Indebted Lie Never Truth
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

House Laughter Makes Woe
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Man Pains Pleasure
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Fool Forty Indeed Speed
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Begun Birth Death Fire
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Men Mortal Themselves Think
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Base Death Fear Less
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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Beneath Build Low Stars
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.

Enjoy Little Mortals Know
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