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5714 Poet Quotes

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Book Drift Everything Nothing
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Beautiful Graves Hair
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Advance Behind Fools Go
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Life Endure Personal
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Great City Greatest Men
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Greatest Hut Man Still
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Bulk Class Few Lands
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Conqueror Ever Exterior Life
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Any Die Different Luckier
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Hope Good
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Produce Men Great
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Both Composition Dialect English
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

AlsoBattles Day Fall Gain
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Artist Bad BadManners Humanity
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Funeral His Own Sympathy
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Bones Fat Find Sticks
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Book
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Celebrate Myself Sing
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Human Scared
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Accept Time Me
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Death Nothing Happen
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Behold Give Lectures Little
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Essentially Greatest Poem
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Life Present
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The real war will never get in the books.

War Receive Enemy
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Simple
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Soul Cool Universe
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Another Done Last Returns
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Confusion Each Happy Other
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Desire Me Meet Passing
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Beautiful Happen More
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Beautiful,Happen,More

Descend Large Me
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Absorb Country He Him
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Anything Education Had Men
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Dreams Each Fair Light
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Above Below Camp
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Ability Attitude Important Success
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Asleep Awake Desire
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Autumn Blossoms
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Shaft Archer
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Honour Nature
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Afterwards Centuries
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Miles Shadow
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Say Eyes
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Farmer Barn Grain
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look Back
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Business Capacities
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