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5714 Poet Quotes

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

Am Bleed Cannot Deed
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Could Define More Poetry
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Attitude Body Certain Knees
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Brow Every God Hope
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Silent Cannot Expresses Music
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Peace Sleep Daily Task
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Labor Invisible Absorb Idle
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Masses Sexuality
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Becomes Dictatorship Fact Revolution
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Always Doctor Even Indeed
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Adore Children Does Fathers
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Ugly Reply Image Deity
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Bitter Cause Indicate Strong
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Before Long Man Mind
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Armies Come Idea Time
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Wings Hath Sings Feels
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Spite Loved Rather Life
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Paradise Stupid Better Hell
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Armies Come Else Idea
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Create Dream Future Like
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Army Cannot Ideas Invasion
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Believes Faith Woe Man
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Book Vast Page Human
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Harm Done Fashions More
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Habit is the nursery of errors.

Errors Habit Nursery
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Congress Does Frighten Horses
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To love beauty is to see light.
Beauty Light Love See
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Serious Shadows Thing Think
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Cannot Eternal Heart Human
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Communion Sacred Wisdom
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Filled Heart Purse
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Every Fire Learn Light
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Toleration is the best religion.

Best Religion Toleration
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Charged Enforcing God Morality
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Closer Joy Laughter Much
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Destroy Develop Fierce Forest
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Being Doing Initiative Told
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Acts Children Deeds Make
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Adversity Makes Men Monsters
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Beauty Bring Fraternity Great
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Books Consolation Derive Life
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Common Education Result Sense
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Bravery Curiosity Feminine Forms
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Center Circle Facts Focal
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Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
Have Two-roads Chosen Third
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I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

Here There Two Names
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If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.
Olive Hands Planted Oil
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The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

Days Taught Happiness Deceives
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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

My-love Fear Silence Hands
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We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Captive Grows Fences Swallows
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