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1342 British Quotes

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Love Long kiss Whole soul Sunlight
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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

My purpose Holds Sail beyond Sunset
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For always roaming with a hungry heart.

Always roaming Hungry heart
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Many worlds So much Little done Things
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Life is brief but love is LONG
Life Brief Love Long
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For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

For words Like nature Half reveal Conceal
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.

The happiness A man Life Mastery
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Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.

Forgive My grief Creature So fair
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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

Have sworn Dead body Hate So free
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It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.
Unconceivable Whole universe Created Who live
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For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

The future Human eye Vision World
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If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

Don't concentrate What Are doing The thing
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

Wonder why Just To do Die
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Love is the only gold.

Love Only gold
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Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

Shall love Be blamed Want Faith
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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.

Cannot rest From travel Drink life Enjoyed greatly
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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

It truth Who sings Clear harp Stepping stone
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Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

Never Nothing Will die Stream flows
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Great world Spin Ringing grooves Change
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For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever

Men May come Go on Forever
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For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

On death The wrath My heart Our lives
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My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

My strength My heart Pure
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In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

The spring Man's fancy Lightly turns Thought
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Wise In love Love most
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The old order changes, giving place to the new.least on good custom should corrupts the world.

Old orders Changes Giving place The new
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Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Adolescence Unanswerable Innocence Insolence
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It was probable, I thought, that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me, and that the whole world was mad.

Disliked World Mad Thought
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The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Paintings Relation Prayers Vision
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How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.

Vulgar Portents Prodiies Religious
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Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Think Adultery Filthy habit
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Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Evil Laughter Co-exist
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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Live Vanity Unreasonable Mortification
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There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless".

Reciprocity Men Women Love
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. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

Cook Imagination Cheerful Mind
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Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Our Hope Off-chance God
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Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Men War Wandered Women
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Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Optimism Last Resort Despair
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when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Person Implores Reasonable View
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Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Phrase Books Universal Eternal
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death Enemy Everything Alright
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you

End result Kindness Draws people
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There is no scientific answer for success. You can’t define it. You’ve simply got to live it and do it.

No scientific answer For success Define it To live
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I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn’t about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

Believe In business Creative thinking Deepest relationship
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Do things Well Them better Be first
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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

To succeed Believe In something Passion
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

Look at Leadership The eyes The followers
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Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.

Be courageous Only places Left uncrowded
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Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

Success A matter Finding Surrounding ourselves
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It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don’t. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.

Fine line Between entrepreneurship Insanity Crazy people
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The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed.

The business About money Responsibility Public good
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