A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.


George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Dudevant)

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Every historian discloses a new horizon.
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a ...
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Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
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I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is ...
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The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
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No religion can be built on force.
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved...
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If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status ...
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Where love is absent, there can be no woman.
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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
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It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the n...
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose...
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We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this w...
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I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more tr...
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It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous ...
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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to los...
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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink ...
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is...
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No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes wit...
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One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience a...
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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No human creature can give orders to love.
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...
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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. ...
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one gr...
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy.
GEORGE SAND
Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.
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Some pursue happiness - others create it.
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire
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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness...
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Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...
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One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree ...
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one...
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J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et pre...
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When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by effort...
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all th...
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The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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Every historian discloses a new horizon
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers
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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness ...
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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to yo...
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Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness:...
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[On Chopin's Preludes:]

"His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of natur...
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Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont pl...
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason
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I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen ...
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A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when som...
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Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.
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He who finds elevated and lofty pleasure in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he never co...
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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.
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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
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Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I love my God, but with no love of mine For I have...
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What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so Pack up your troubles in your old kit...
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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
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We realize we're plucking you out of the mainstream of your lives,
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is really irrelevant.
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I'd be all right to start fresh next season. But we've got a good team. We've got a solid team. Peop...
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We've got to cross our fingers and pray and hope that happens.
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I try to put myself in the position of a juror,
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This court is not a vehicle for public declarations,
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If you are going to fight the Iraqi war before this jury, I am not going to stop you,
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As I read the indictment, ... I really wonder whether this is not the time for the government to sim...
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The process by which the death penalty is decided is one that most people are not familiar with,
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The consequences of inadvertent disclosure in this case are real and grave not only in terms of pote...
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It is a long and somewhat tedious process, but it is of utmost importance... to the criminal justice...
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There was a time when the crime itself determined the sentence. It used to be if someone is convicte...
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I don't believe First Amendment rights are being infringed,
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One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.
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The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
MME. DU DEFFAND
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime, ...
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
In every parting there is an image of death.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment th...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through end...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was servi...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the mo...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand-- Not shrink and let the shaf...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrive...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fo...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secre...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluc...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work Of many thousand men.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it prove...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; ...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
To be great is to be misunderstood.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
What makes like dreary is the want of motive.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hea...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength In furthest striving act...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
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Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead, And all sad sounds are nature's fun...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to pet...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hu...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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When you lose, let that be a lesson to you.
When you win - you don't learn anything.
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ...
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes di...
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes...
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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown pe...
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All kings is mostly rapscallions.
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He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from affluence to...
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He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.] - credited to Publius Syrus ...
JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER)
All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand, Then the Saviour b...
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Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!
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All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America...
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Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose--e...
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless a...
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the ...
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"So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. ...
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Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms up...
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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, an...
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The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without ...
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER)
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER)
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slande...
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And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray; For all you can hold in ...
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"All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years; But to h...
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Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair ...
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown; And amidst the fla...
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Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and ...
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With deep affection And recollection I often think of Those Shandon bells, Whose...
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'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, ...
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Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And...
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In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised,...
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Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip ...
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You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's ...
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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. ...
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George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Sq...
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Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the b...
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Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iro...
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All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER)