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Art and Culture
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound t
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
5.0 · 57 votes · 121 reads
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Thought and Reason
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
4.8 · 12 votes · 89 reads
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Various
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.8 · 29 votes · 158 reads
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Feelings
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
3.8 · 30 votes · 75 reads
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Art and Culture
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.5 · 50 votes · 11 reads
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Society
''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
PoetBritish1874 · 19th century
4.1 · 57 votes · 112 reads
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Society
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Horace
PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC
3.7 · 45 votes · 178 reads
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Art and Culture
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century
3.2 · 38 votes · 107 reads
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Feelings
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century
3.0 · 31 votes · 70 reads
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Society
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
George Santayana
PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century
4.4 · 35 votes · 133 reads
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