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5714 Poet Quotes

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will

Man Compassion Heart God
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Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.

Variety Spice Life Flavour
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Truth Wisdom Lead Honey
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Abscence Occupation Mind Distressed
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Happiness Depend Nature Exterior
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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Meditation Moments Heart Books
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Love Death Hope Despair
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Skins may differ, but affectionDwells in white and black the same.

Skins Differ Affection Same
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Glory Selfish Principle Shame
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

Spirit Word Truth Light
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Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace

Accomplishments Virtue's Wisdom Grace
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All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

Truth Precious Powers Refine
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Art Poetry Passions Virtue
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Existence Life Happiness Purpose
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

War Game Wise Play at
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

Men Life Children Play
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Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!

Truth Earth Rise
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Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

Winning Beats Anything Second place
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All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Great Poets Men Knowledge
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Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

Music Study Entertainment Listners
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

Thing Fear Hurt Dream
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been

Women Equal Men Superior
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Worse than madness. Sanity.

Worse Madness Sanity
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

Moment Vision Eye Nothing
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

Trouble Chief Think Wise
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Art Communication Rest Discovery
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.

Human Endeavour Good Cost
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There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.

Life Love Good Compete
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
Think Art Communicate Useless
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Nature Optimist Conviction Pessimist
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

What Man Defiles Him
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Childhood Disease Sickness Grow
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Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Man Produces Evil Honey
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

We Disharmony Natures Live
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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.

Got Rules Obey Savages
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The way towards simplicity is through outrage.

Way Simplicity Outrage
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To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.

Nothing Act Throwing away Life
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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Past Dead Alive Future
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

Understand Words Important Experience
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

History Art People Created
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The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
True Secreat Happiness Life
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Reward Labour Life Enough
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

Learn Love Art Hate
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Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

Nothing Useless Truly Beautiful
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Now let us go, love, down the winding stair, With fingers intertwined...

Love Down Fingers Intertwined
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Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: "Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee

Love Clear Eyes Blind
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Let some word reach my ears and touch my heart

Word Ears Touch Heart
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I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one's hands before one doing nothing - to live like a gentleman, as fools call it.

Think Good life Live Fools
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It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

Works Imagination Children Time
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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

Made Man's Labour Worth
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