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8803 Writer Quotes

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Dead Dreams Interpret May
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Great Performed Perseverance Strength
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Disagreeable I Think Least Music
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Find Information Kinds Know
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being Chance Drowned Jail
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Fine Meet Out Over
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Advertisement Large Promise Soul
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Absolutely Good He Him
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Disadvantages Makes Man Mistake
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Been Frost Gives Had
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Anything Changing Disposition Efforts
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

Issues Terribly Black White
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost Attempting Display Does
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Any Because Courage Greatest
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Compared Consider Done He
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Even Fondness Kindness Our
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Bed Before Going Scoundrel
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Art Pleasure Poetry Truth
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Given Law Little Much
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Certain Characteristics Curiosity Intellect
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Acquaintances Advances Alone Constant
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
Easy Excellent Seldom
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Aim Ambition Cannot Cured
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Arises Authors Chief Every
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Almost Great Love Self
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed

Alone Born Complaining Crying
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself

Been Genius Has-Been Himself
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Deliberation How Idle Life
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Afford He Life London
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Before Dared Darkness Deep
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Became Horrible Insane Intervals
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Dream See Seem Within
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Cognizant Day Dream Escape
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Misconception A Stupidity Talent
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Absolute Danger Effect Except
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Evolved Fear Fraud Friend
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Found May Possibly Verse
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Bent Come Content Dreams
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Deserves Excitement Excites Need
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Collection Distribution Memory Offices
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Dreary Midnight Once Weak
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Any Been Calamity Escaped
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Apply Between Cannot Difference
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Design Difficult Easy Many
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Beauty Brief Creation Define
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Everything Genius Saying Should
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Call Faith Fools Friends
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Dream Existence Fancy Future
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Because Chiefly Ever Expecting
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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